﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  To/, 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  107 
  

  

  covered 
  with 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  shining, 
  the 
  

   punctures, 
  especially 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  more 
  widely 
  

   separated 
  ; 
  the 
  mandibles 
  testaceous 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  

   piceous 
  towards 
  the 
  apex. 
  Antennas 
  black, 
  covered 
  with 
  

   a 
  microscopic 
  down. 
  Thorax 
  shining, 
  minutely 
  punc- 
  

   tured 
  ; 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs, 
  especially 
  long 
  on 
  the 
  

   pleurae, 
  post-scutellum 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  median 
  segment 
  ; 
  the 
  

   area 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  longitudinally 
  

   striated 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  very 
  shining 
  ; 
  its 
  central 
  

   furrow 
  not 
  very 
  wide. 
  Propleuras 
  deepl}' 
  excavated 
  in 
  

   the 
  middle 
  and 
  finely 
  striated 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  at 
  the 
  top, 
  finely 
  

   striated 
  ; 
  the 
  meso- 
  and 
  meta-pleurse 
  opaque, 
  shagreened, 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hairs. 
  Legs 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  

   white 
  hairs, 
  which 
  are 
  especially 
  thick 
  on 
  the 
  hinder 
  four 
  

   tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  ; 
  the 
  knees 
  of 
  the 
  front 
  pair, 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  

   the 
  hinder 
  four 
  tibias 
  and 
  the 
  tarsi 
  yellowish-testaceous. 
  

   Wings 
  clear 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  nervures 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  the 
  stigma 
  

   darker 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  almost 
  

   interstitial 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  is 
  received 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  third 
  of 
  

   the 
  cellule 
  ; 
  the 
  apices 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  three 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  pale, 
  slightly 
  fringed 
  with 
  pale 
  hairs, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   segments 
  tliickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  fulvo-golden 
  hair 
  ; 
  

   the 
  ventral 
  surface, 
  especially 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  bearing 
  

   long 
  pale 
  fuscous 
  hairs, 
  the 
  apical 
  segment 
  for 
  the 
  greater 
  

   part 
  aciculated. 
  

  

  HaLICTUS 
  BUDDHA, 
  Sp. 
  HOV. 
  

  

  Long. 
  5 
  mm. 
  2. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Mussouri 
  (Rothncy). 
  

  

  Agrees 
  closely 
  with 
  H. 
  salutatrix, 
  and, 
  like 
  it, 
  has 
  the 
  

   base 
  of 
  the 
  tibiae 
  and 
  the 
  tarsi 
  white 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  front 
  

   four 
  tibiae 
  are 
  entirely 
  white 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  broadly 
  white 
  

   at 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  antennae 
  broadly 
  brownish 
  beneath, 
  

   the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  much 
  more 
  strongly 
  

   striolated. 
  

  

  