SPHECODES. — HALICrrS. 



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verse anteriorly; median segment truncate posteriorly, coarsely 

 rugose and punctured, the space at base concave and longitudinally 

 striate. Head and thorax black ; abdomen ferruginous, base and 

 apex of the 2ud and base of the .'3rd segment above fuscous, the 

 apex broadly of the 3rd and the whole of the following segments 

 black ; the antenna? and legs piceous ; wings hyaline and splen- 

 didly iridescent. 



Hah. Northern India. $ . Lengt7i 5 ; exjJ. 9 mm. 6 unknown. 



*724. Sphecodes mhripes, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1838, p. 512 ; id.. 

 op. cit. 1843, p. 438 ; BaU. Torr. Cat. x, p. 1. 



"Antennae, coxae, head, and thorax black; abdomen, the legs 

 (coxae excepted), and the tegulas of the wings red. Pubescence 

 corresponding to the colour of the part it is growing on. Head 

 and thorax strongly punctured, the punctures close but distinct. 

 Disc of the metathorax more strongly punctured than the rest of 

 the thorax, the punctures confluent, forming longitudinal striae." 



Hab. Egypt ; Bombay, Western India. 



Genus HALICTUS. 



Halictus, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. xiii, p. 364 (180o). 

 Lasioglossum, Curtis, Brit. Ent. x, pi. 448 (18-34). 

 Nomioides, pt., ScJtenck, Berl. ent. Zeit. x, p. 333 (1866). 



Type, H. se.v-cinctus, Fabr. 

 Range. Both hemisphex*es. 



Head subtriangular, the ocelli in a curve on the vei'tex ; the 

 scape of the antennae about as long rs 

 half the flagellum, the latter filiform ; 

 the clypeus more or less produced ; 

 the tongue acute ; the labial palpi 4- 

 jointed, the basal joint as long as the 

 following two, the apical three gradu- 

 ally decreasing in length ; the max- 

 illary palpi G-jointed, tlie basal joint 

 the shortest, the following joints 

 gradually decreasing in length to the 

 apical one ; the labrum ( 2 ) transverse, 

 with a carina in front densely fringfd 

 with pubescence. Thorax ovate ; the 

 median segment short, generally 

 steeply sloped or truncate, and with 

 a subtriangular lunate or cordate 

 space at base above generally concave 

 and punctured, striate or reticulate, 

 sometimes pubescent ; legs moderately long, the posterior legs 

 with a floccus of long hair on the coxa; and trochanters, and a 

 dense poUiniferous scopa on the tibiae. Wings fairly ample, the 

 radial cell narrowing towards the apex, \\ hich is sharply acute ; 



2 E 2 



Fig. 134. — Halictus. 1, maxilla; 

 2, labium (much enlarged). 



