43 EGYPTIAN AND 



Q03. Halictds nigktnus. Female. — Black, thickly and very 

 minutely punctured, with cinereous hairs. Metathorax rather roughly 

 punctured. Abdomen with a band of whitish hairs on the hind 

 border of each segment ; hind borders of the ventral segments piceous. 

 Wings cinereous; veins and stigma black. Length of the body 

 4 lines. 



Cairo. 



204. Haltctus distinctus. Female. — Black, thickly and very 

 minutely punctured, with hoary hairs. Abdomen with a hoary band 

 on the hind border of each segment. Tarsi reddish towards the tips. 

 Wings cinereous, darker along the exterior border ; veins black ; 

 stigma piceous. Length of the body 4| lines. 



Wady Genneh. 



205. Halictus tibialis. Male. — Black, thickly and very 

 minutely punctured, with cinereous hairs. Antennae tawny beneath. 

 Clypeus prominent, with a dingy whitish band on the fore border. 

 Abdomen with a reddish piceous band and with cinereous hairs on 

 the hind border of each segment. Four anterior femora sometimes 

 striped with tawny ; tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, the former broadly 

 striped with black on each side. Wings cinereous, darker along the 

 exterior border ; veins black, testaceous at the base ; stigma piceous. 

 Length of the body 4 — 4i lines. 



Longer than H. longulus; has much more resemblance to H. 

 productus, a West African species, but the different colour of the 

 legs distinguishes it from the latter. 



Wady Ferran. Mount Sinai. 



906. Halictus decorus. Female. — Black, shining, thickly and 

 extremely minutely punctured, with whitish hairs. Antennaa red 

 beneath towards the tips. Disk of the metathorax flat, with a slight 

 longitudinal furrow. Abdomen elliptical, with weU-defined white 

 bands on the hind- borders of the segments; hind borders of the 

 ventral segments reddish. Tarsi tawny. Wings cinereous ; veins 

 black ; stigma piceous. Length of the body 4 lines. 



Allied to H. albescens of Hindostan, but the latter has four bands 

 on the abdomen. 



Harkeko. 



