﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  ]'oL 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  log 
  

  

  black, 
  the 
  flagellum 
  almost 
  bare 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  bearing 
  long 
  

   white 
  hairs. 
  Pro- 
  and 
  meso-thorax 
  impunctate, 
  covered 
  

   with 
  long 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  pleurae 
  under 
  the 
  wings 
  

   striated 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  obscurely 
  longi- 
  

   tudinally 
  striated 
  ; 
  its 
  apex 
  oblique, 
  slightly 
  hollowed 
  in 
  

   the 
  centre, 
  the 
  sides 
  margined. 
  Legs 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  femora 
  

   with 
  a 
  piceous 
  hue 
  ; 
  sparsely 
  haired, 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  

   tibia 
  and 
  tarsi 
  much 
  thicker, 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  tibiae 
  

   which 
  have 
  a 
  fulvo-golden 
  hue 
  ; 
  the 
  spurs 
  yellowish- 
  

   testaceous. 
  Abdomen 
  black, 
  shining, 
  glabrous, 
  except 
  

   at 
  the 
  apex, 
  which 
  bears 
  fulvous 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  seg- 
  

   ments 
  shining, 
  impunctate, 
  almost 
  glabrous. 
  Wings 
  clear 
  

   hyaline, 
  the 
  nervures 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  

   almost 
  interstitial 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  received 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  

   fourth 
  of 
  the 
  cellule. 
  

  

  Halictus 
  garrulus, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Niger, 
  pallide 
  fulvo-hirtus 
  ; 
  genicidis, 
  tibiis 
  tarsisqiie 
  pallide 
  

   fulvis 
  ; 
  alis 
  fulvo-liyalinis, 
  stigtnatc 
  fulvo, 
  tiervis 
  pallidis. 
  <3 
  . 
  

   Long. 
  7 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Mussouri 
  {Rothney). 
  

  

  Head 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  vertex 
  coarsely 
  alutaceous 
  ; 
  

   the 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  face 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  golden- 
  

   fulvous 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  the 
  mandibles 
  dark 
  piceous, 
  black 
  

   at 
  the 
  base. 
  Antennae 
  brownish, 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  blackish 
  ; 
  

   the 
  scape 
  black, 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  longish 
  pale 
  hairs. 
  

   The 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  mesonotum, 
  fringed 
  all 
  

   round 
  with 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  closely 
  

   and 
  rather 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  with 
  the 
  

   punctures 
  more 
  widely 
  separated 
  ; 
  the 
  post 
  - 
  scutellum 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  pale 
  pubescence, 
  completely 
  hiding 
  

   its 
  surface 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  metanotum 
  strongly 
  longi- 
  

   tudinally 
  keeled 
  throughout 
  ; 
  the 
  remainder 
  opaque, 
  

   closely 
  punctured, 
  furrowed 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  

   and 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hairs. 
  Pleurae 
  

  

  