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Upper half obliquely sloped, cubital ccllule 2. half the length of the 3.; recurrent nervure i. received in front of 

 the 2. transversa cubital, almost interstitial; metanotal are closely, rugosel)' punctured throughout, sides to the 

 centre rounded, clearly margined, centre almost transverse. L. 5 mm. 



Front, face and clypeus thickly covered vvith white pubescence, clypeus strongly, almost rugosely 

 punctured except on the apex ; face irregularly rugose ; front and vertex opaque, coarsely alutaceous ; mesonotum 

 and scutellum shining, sparsel}^ indistinctly punctured ; pleurae finely rugose; abdomen shining, impunctate, apices 

 of the Segments testaceous. 



Kapland— Museum Grounds Grahamstown im November. 



Halictus vivescens Lep. var. africanus Friese. 

 1908 Halictus virescens var. africanus Frie.se, $, in: Sjöstedt: Kilimandjaro-Exp., Bd. VIII, p. 124. 



?. Wie H. virescens, aber Beine braungelb, Tarsenghed i der Beine II und III weißgelb. L. 6 V2 """. 

 Br. 2 mm. 



I 9 von Kibonoto am 6. September, 1000 — 1300 m. 

 Kilimandjaro — Deutsch-Ostafrika. 



Halictus vittatus Sm. 



185.3 Halictus vittatus Smith, 9, in: Cat. Hym. Br. Mus., Vol. I, p. 53. 



?. Black, the face and vertex have a thin pale fulvous pubescence, on the cheeks it is paler, the clypeus 

 shining, coarsely sculptured at the apex and ciliated with ferruginous hairs, the antennae beneath rufo-piceous 

 towards their apex. Thorax clothed with pale fulvous pubescence, most thinly so on the disk; base of the 

 metathorax enclosed by an elevated ridge; wings rufo-hyaline, nervures ferruginous, tarsi ferruginous, beneath 

 clothed with bright ferruginous hair, above with fulvous. Abdomen ovate, delicately punctured, the apical margins 

 of the Segments cream-coloured, in some specimens having a reddish hue and also varying a little in width in 

 different specimens. L. 5 lines (= 10V2 mm). 



Kapland. Coli. Saunders. 



Halictus volutatorius Cam. 

 1905 Halictus volutatorius Camekox, $, in: Rec. Albany Muse, Vol. I, p. 185. 



9. Black, abdomen ferruginous, tegulae piccous red; wings clear hyaline, stigma fuscous, nervures darker 

 coloured. L. 6 mm. 



Antennae fuscous beneath towards the apex ; clypeus shining, strongl}^ but not closely punctured ; face 

 more wcakly punctured; apex of cl3'peus fringed with short golden pile and more sparsely with long white 

 hair; front alutaceous, thickly covered with fuscous pubescence, vertex shining; pro- and mesonotum shining, 

 sparsely punctured. 



Metanotal area closely, finely reticulated, without an apical border; mesopleurae coarsely alutaceous 

 opaque; base of i. segment sparsely covered with long white hair, the apical thickly covered with white pile 

 and more sparsely with long white hair; segments smooth and shining; anal rima rufo-piceous, bordered with 

 golden pubescence; the basal 3 abscissae of radius become successively longer, but not much; 3. tr'ansverse 

 cubital nervure in front has a small part straight and oblique, rest roundly curved. 



Kapland — Brak Kloof. 



Jenaischo Deakechriften. XIV. 9 Schultze, Forschungsreise in Südafrika. IL 



