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Geißelglied i sehr groß, größer als das 2., 2. = 3. Mesonotum und Scutellum sparsam und fein punktiert, 

 Zwischenräume etwas glänzend, Area auf dem Basalteil fein und dicht gerunzelt, dem Ende zu glatt, aber kaum 

 glänzend. Abdomen rot, sehr fein, aber nicht dicht punktiert, Furche auf Segment 5 braun behaart. Ventral- 

 segmente fast glatt, Segment 6 mit stumpfem, glattem Mittelkiel. Beine schwarzbraun, kurz gelbbraun behaart, 

 Scopa weißlich, außen braun, Metatarsus breit, ziemlich parallel, Vs der Tibicnbreite erreichend, am Außenrande 

 verlängert, mit braunem Penicillus. Flügel bräunlich, Adern und Tegulac braun. L. 7 mm, Er. 2 mm. 

 I ? vom Kap. 



Halictus rufomarfßinatus Sm. 



1853 Halictus rufomarginatus Smith, $, in: Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, p. 54. 



?. Black, head and thorax closely and strongly punctured, clypeus shining, coarsely punctured, flagellum 

 testaceous beneath towards the apex, a little pale fulvous pubescence on the face. Thorax thickly covered with 

 pale fulvous pubescence, most sparing on the disk, tegulae nigro-piceous ; wings subhyaline, iridescent, 

 netvures pale ferruginous. Abdomen ovate, closely and finely punctured, apical margins of the i.— 2. segments 

 smooth and shining, i. bright rufo-piceous, 2. piceous, base of 2. — 3. segments depressed and covered with a 

 Short white dense pubescence. L. 4V2 hnes {= 9V2 mm). 



Südafrika. 



Halictus schoenlanäi Cam. 

 1905 Halictus schoenlandi Cameron, 5, in: Reo. Albany Mus., Vol. I, p. 329. 



?. Black, the apical third of the ist abdominal segment, the whole of the 2nd and the greater part of 

 the 3rd red; wings clear hyaline, the stigma fuscous, the nervures pale. Hair dense whitish-cinereous. L. 5 mm. 



Metanotal area closely, longitudinally reticulated, more finely and closely at the apex than at the base, 

 the sides with stouter, more widely separated oblique Striae. The hair on the face, clypeus and front is very 

 dense, hiding the sculpture. Sides of mesonotum finely, closely and distinctly punctured, the centre more widely 

 and strongly punctured. Apex of scutellum closely, the base sparsely punctured. Calcaria pale testaceous"; the 

 hair on the innerside of the tarsi is rufous. The 3. abscissa of radius is not much longer than the 2.; the 3. 

 transverse cubital nervure is oblique in front, the hinder (and smaller) part is broadly rounded. Tegulae piceous. 

 Antennae stout, the joints of flagellum almost moniliform. The apex of the metanotum is transverse in the 

 middle above, its sides rounded. Only the base of the 2. abdominal segment is depressed. There are no basal 

 or apical fasciae on the abdominal segments. Above the propleura is dilated into a triangulär, large projection, 

 which is bare below, above thickly covered with long white hair; it is as long as its width at the base and 

 becomes gradually narrowed towards the apex. 



Kapland. 



Halictus scobis Vacii. 

 1903 Halictus scohis Vachal, $, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 389. 



?. Niger, griseo-albido hispidulus, metanoto tomentoso, abdominis dorso pube vestito. 



Caput breviter ovale; mesonotum et scutellum nuda lucida tenuissime (sub lente) punctulata. Segmenti 

 medialis area dorsalis longa uniformiter tenuissime strigulosa, area analis tenuissime marginata, margine ramum 

 haud emittente. Alae griseo-hyalinae, nervis piceis. Onychia et calcaria rufescentia. Calcar trispinosum, spinis 

 basali longa, apicali brevissima. T. 5 72 mm. 



I $ de N'Jole (BoUYSSOU), au Museum de Paris. 



Kongo. 



