﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  iii 
  

  

  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  furrow 
  ; 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  

   se,s^ment 
  at 
  the 
  area 
  are 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  it 
  with 
  

   distinctly 
  separated 
  punctures. 
  The 
  mesopleurae, 
  except 
  

   at 
  base 
  and 
  apex, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  metapleurje 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  down 
  

   and 
  more 
  sparsely 
  with 
  long 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hairs. 
  Wings 
  

   hyaline, 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  fuscous 
  tinge 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  from 
  the 
  

   apex 
  of 
  the 
  radial 
  cellule 
  smoky 
  ; 
  the 
  nervures 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  

   the 
  stigma 
  darker 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  ; 
  both 
  the 
  recurrent 
  nervures 
  

   are 
  received 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  relative 
  distance 
  beyond 
  

   the 
  middle. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  longish 
  fulvous 
  

   hairs, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  and 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiai 
  in 
  front 
  testaceous. 
  

   Abdomen 
  punctured, 
  strongly 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  more 
  

   weakly 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  segments 
  shining 
  at 
  the 
  

   base, 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  fuscous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  fourth 
  

   segment 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  depressed 
  fulvous 
  pube- 
  

   scence 
  ; 
  the 
  fifth 
  obliquely 
  depressed 
  ; 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  

   fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  last 
  segment 
  ferruginous. 
  

  

  Halictus 
  taproban.e, 
  s,p. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Long. 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ceylon 
  (Rothncy). 
  

  

  Agrees 
  very 
  closely 
  in 
  form 
  and 
  coloration 
  with 
  H. 
  

   piilchrivcntris, 
  but 
  is 
  much 
  smaller 
  ; 
  and 
  otherwise 
  easily 
  

   separated 
  by 
  the 
  striated 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  

   being 
  distinctly 
  and 
  triangularly 
  produced 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   which 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  case 
  in 
  H. 
  pulchriventris 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  also 
  not 
  

   hollowed 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  black, 
  the 
  flagellum 
  brownish 
  on 
  the 
  under- 
  

   side, 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  microscopic 
  down. 
  The 
  face 
  

   below 
  the 
  antenna 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  as 
  high 
  as 
  the 
  lower 
  

   ocellus, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  pale 
  fulvo-aureous 
  pube- 
  

   scence 
  ; 
  the 
  mandibles 
  broadly 
  ferruginous 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  

   Thorax 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  and 
  scutellum 
  closely 
  

   punctured, 
  the 
  edge. 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  behind 
  and 
  a 
  belt 
  

  

  