HALICTUS. 433 



leg^ except at the apex black, with dense white pubescance ; wings 

 hvaline, nervures and tegula) testaceous. 



Hah. Bengal : Burma ; Teuasserim. $ . Length 8-9 ; exp. 19 mm. 

 Type in coll. Wroughton. 



752. Halictns invidus, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli, 1897. 



c? . Head and thorax densely and coarsely, abdomen more finely 

 and as closely punctured, the margins of the segments impunctate, 

 smooth and highly polished ; the face in front thickly, the thorax 

 and abdomen thinly pubescent ; median segment posteriorly 

 above shining, the enclosed semicircular space at base cribrate ; 

 abdomen subcordate, broad, slightly vertically compressed. Black', 

 the apical joints of the tarsi pale testaceous, the apical third of the 

 1st and the whole of the 2nd abdominal segment rufo-fuscous ; 

 wings hyaline, broadly but lightly fuscescenton the apical maro-in' 

 nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Hah. Mussooree. S • Lenr/th 7 ; exp. 14 mm. Type in coll. 

 Eothney. 



753. Halictns feai, Vachal, Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. (2") xiv, 1894 p 440 



2d. ' ' 



2 . Head and thorax finely and very closely punctured, the 

 punctures sparser and larger on the clypeus ; base of the abdomen 

 smooth, shining, impunctate, the rest very minutely and somewhat 

 closely punctured ; clypeus convex ; front slightly concave, with a 

 medial fine vertical carina ; median segment truncate posteriori v 

 the sides rounded, the face of the truncation smooth, the rest of 

 the segment coarsely cribrate, the apical margin of the 1st abdo- 

 minal segment very slightly constricted. Jet-black, verv slio-htly 

 pubescent, the pubescence whitish on the clypeus and front, the 

 sides of the thorax, and along the apical margin of the basal 

 two segments of the abdomen, turning to golden ferruo-inous 

 on the 3rd and following segments ; postscutellum bare, punctured ; 

 legs with pale glittering pubescence ; anal rima black, frino-ed with 

 golden ferruginous pile ; \\dngs fusco-hyaline, vividlv iridescent. 



c? similar, elongate ; the eyes obsoletely emarginate on the 

 inner orbits, strongly convergent below ; the apical maro-ins of 

 abdominal segments 1-5 slightly constricted ; the clypeus with its 

 apical margin broadly orange, the apical half of the wings fuscous 

 with a purple and iridescent efiiulgence. 



Hah. Karen Hills, Burma. 5 . Length 8'5 ; exp. 20 mm. 

 c? . T^ength 9 ; exjJ. 22 mm. 



*754. Halictns fimbriatus, S7nith, Cat. i, p. 63, d ■ 



" (S • Length 5 lines (10 mm.). Black, distinctly and not very 

 closely punctured ; the clypeus much produced and coarsely punc- 

 tured ; antenna) as long as the head and thorax, the joints sub- 

 arcuate, rufo-piceous beneath. The sides of the thorax and beneath 

 covered with long white pubescence ; the legs have a clothing of 



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