﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  .xli. 
  (iSgy), 
  No. 
  4, 
  105 
  

  

  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  tarsi 
  

   denser 
  and 
  golden. 
  Wings 
  clear 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  nervures 
  

   black 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  equal 
  in 
  

   length 
  to, 
  at 
  bottom 
  shorter 
  than, 
  the 
  third 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  

   recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  received 
  very 
  shortly 
  before 
  the 
  

   second 
  transverse 
  cubital 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  before 
  the 
  apical 
  

   third 
  of 
  the 
  cellule. 
  Abdomen 
  shining, 
  impunctate, 
  

   sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  fuscous 
  hairs, 
  above 
  and 
  below. 
  

  

  Halictus 
  ciris, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Niger; 
  clypeo, 
  labro, 
  scapo 
  antennarum 
  siibtiis, 
  tibiis 
  

   tarsisque, 
  flavis 
  ; 
  flagello 
  antennarum 
  siibtus 
  brunneo 
  ; 
  alis 
  

   hyalinis. 
  2. 
  Long, 
  fere 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Barrackpore 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  Head 
  black, 
  from 
  shortly 
  below 
  the 
  ocelli 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  

   of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  short 
  white 
  hairs. 
  

   Clypeus 
  shining, 
  bearing 
  large 
  widely-separated 
  punc- 
  

   tures 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  top, 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  yellow 
  projects 
  

   triangularly 
  into 
  the 
  black. 
  Mandibles 
  yellow, 
  the 
  apex 
  

   rufous 
  ; 
  the 
  palpi 
  and 
  tongue 
  testaceous. 
  Antennas 
  stout 
  

   covered 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  microscopic 
  pile 
  ; 
  the 
  yellow 
  on 
  the 
  

   under 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  scape 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  mark 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  

   Thorax 
  black, 
  alutaceous, 
  not 
  shining, 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  

   with 
  a 
  short 
  down 
  ; 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  in 
  front 
  

   and 
  below 
  the 
  tegulas 
  lemon-yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  tegulae 
  yellow 
  ; 
  

   the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  longitudinally 
  striolated 
  ; 
  

   the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  striae 
  aciculated 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  

   depression 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  segment 
  

   oblique 
  ; 
  furrowed 
  down 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  the 
  sides 
  distinctly 
  

   and 
  strongly 
  keeled. 
  The 
  pleura 
  strongly 
  aciculated, 
  

   opaque, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  propleurae 
  

   excavated. 
  Legs 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  

   the 
  fore 
  femora 
  and 
  the 
  hinder 
  four 
  knees 
  rufo-testaceous 
  ; 
  

   the 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  tibia 
  rufous 
  before 
  

   and 
  behind, 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  black 
  line 
  in 
  front. 
  Wings 
  clear 
  

  

  