HALicxrs. 431 



the anal rima, the tibiae and tarsi pubescent, testaceous ; wings 

 hyaline and iridescent, nerviires and tegulae testaceous. 

 d similar, slighter, the clypeus more produced. 

 Hah. Ceylon; Tenasserim. 5. Length 5-5 ; e.r^). 10 mm. d" 

 slightly smaller. 



746. Halictus buccinus, Vachal, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2^) xiv, 1894, 



p. 443, c?. 

 S • Head and thorax veiy minutely granular, opaque, abdomen 

 smooth and shining ; head orbicular, slightly produced below, eyes 

 strongly convergent beneath ; front not carinate ; median segment 

 roundly steep posteriorly and at the sides, compressed, the space 

 at base above very finely and closely punctured ; abdomen elongate, 

 the base of the 2nd segment strongly depressed. Metallic green ; 

 legs with the apex of the tibi« and tarsi testaceous ; the abdomen 

 black, with a purple tint in certain lights ; wings hyaline, uervm-es 

 piceous. 



Hah. Karen Hills, Burma, c? • Length 4-5 ; exp. 10 mm. This, 

 as Vachal himself suggests, may be the male of H.fmternus, Smith, 

 described from Makassar. 



747. Halictus vicinus, Vachal, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. {2'') xiv, 1894, 



p.431, $. 



2 . Head quadrate beneath, slightly narrowed ; clypeus barely 

 prominent, its anterior mai'gin transverse and fringed with stiff 

 hairs ; head, thorax, and abdomen minutely and closely punctured, 

 the punctures on the clypeus larger and wider apart ; median 

 segment roundly truncate posteriorly, the enclosed space at base 

 lunate, slightly concave, densely punctured, the punctures with a 

 tendency to form radiating striae ; abdomen massive and broad. 

 Dull aeneous green, the head and face with thin, the legs with 

 dense fulvous pubescence ; abdomen with the base of segments 2-5 

 having transverse bands, broad at the sides, sub-interrupted in the 

 middle, of similar pubescence ; 6th segment with the sides of the 

 rima covered with thick fulvous pubescence ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures testaceous, tegulae brownish. 



Hah. Bhamo, Upper Burma. 5 . Length HQVixlj 8 ; exp. 15 mm. 



748. Halictus spodiozonius, Vachal, Ann. Mus. Cio. Gen. (2«) xiv, 



1894, p. 432, 2- _ 

 2 . Head in front thickly studded with short hairs and closely 

 punctured; thorax shining, punctured, the punctures on the 

 mesonotum fine and rather sparse ; abdomen broad, massive and 

 smooth ; clypeus rather coarsely punctured, its anterior margin 

 transverse and fringed with hau's ; postscutellum covered with 

 close and thick, the pleurae with somewhat less dense pubescence ; 

 median segment roundly truncate, the space at base above narrow, 

 slightly concave, rugosely punctate ; abdomen with the apical 

 margins of the basal four segments broadly depressed, the anterior 

 margin of the depressed border waved, the posterior margin \\ith 

 a subapical rather broad band of thin short pubescence. Black, the 



