T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



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wings not nearly so dark ; b. n. less strongly arched below, almost 

 reaching t. m. ; second s. m. larger, receiving r. n. not so near end ; 

 outer side of anterior tibiae with pale hair ; first abdominal segment 

 with well defined punctures, as also the second, third with punctures 

 of two sizes ; scattered glittering white hair, but no well-defined bands ; 

 apex with dark fuscous hair. The spurs are black. 



Hab. — Mackay, Queensland, March, 1900 {Turner 698) . 

 Nomiu flavoviridis Ckll. 



Five males from Cooktown, Australia, October, 1902 

 {Turner). British Museum. 



Two females from Mackay, Queensland, at flowers of 

 Cassia) Dec, 1899 {Turner). Also two females distinctly 

 larger than the Mackay insect, one olive-green, including the 

 abdomen, from N. W. Australia (C. F. ; Turner collection), 

 the other blue-green, from New South Wales {C. F.; Turner 

 collection). These larger specimens also have the wings 

 rather darker, and seem to constitute a distinct race. The 

 tongue of flavoviridis is dagger-shaped. 



I cannot avoid a suspicion that the " C. F." specimens 

 from " N. W. Australia " are wrongly labelled. They seem, 

 at least in the main, to represent a S. E. Australina fauna. 



Halictus albofasciatus Smith. 



This species was described only from the female ; I have 

 examined Smith's type and have before me a male, presum- 

 ably conspecific, from Basutoland {R. Crawshay); British 

 Museum. 



9 . — A rather large species, with four broad ivory-white apical bands 

 on abdomen ; hair of thorax above ochreous ; hind spur minutely 

 nodulose. 



c?. — Length about 10* mm. ; hair pallid throughout, only faintly 

 tinged with yellowish dorsally ; abdomen with five white tegumentary 

 bands ; segments beyond the third with a good deal of brownish-black 

 hair, antennal joints 4 to 10 having beneath successively smaller shin- 

 ing patches, the outline of the affected part beneath crenulated. 



All of Smith's 1879 Halicti, as well as numerous other 

 species of African bees, are omitted from Friese's recent 

 great work, " Die Bienen Afrikas." 



Halictus galpinsiae Ckll. 



Utah Junction, Colorado, at flowers of Anogra, May 26, 

 between 7 and 8 a.m. {Cockerel/) . 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC . , XXXVI. (29) AUGUST, 1910. 



