HALICTU3. 



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clypeus lightly convex, elongate, anteriorly fringed with stiffish 

 hairs ; postscutellum densely pubescent ; median segment roundly 

 truncate at apex above, slightly concave, finely rugose, punctate 

 with a granular appearance. Dark castaneons brown, the tegulae 

 and posterior margins of the segments paler, the latter lightly 

 fringed with whitish down, the pubescence on the postscutelluiii 

 fulvous, on the clypeus and face sparse and white : wings hyaline, 

 uervures and stigma testaceous. 



Hah. Kai-en Hills, Burma; Tenasserim. 

 12 mm. 



5 . Length G ; exp. 



75S. Halictus ducalis. 



Halictus amoeaus, Bi7i(/h. {nee Spin.) P. Z. S. 1896, p. 451, 5. 



2 . The head, thorax, and abdomen (except its basal segment) 

 at the bases of the segments finely and closely 

 punctured ; clypeus broad, anteriorly fringed 

 with long stiff hairs ; the antennal carina well- 

 marked; mesonotum marked with a short 

 longitudinally-impressed Hue on each side close 

 to the tegula3; median segment compressed 

 at the sides, truncate posteriorly, the space 

 at base closely punctured ; basal segment of 

 Fi^. lo7. abdomen entirely, and the margins of the 



Halict us ducalis, 2. i- others broadly glabrous. Black; the head, 

 mesonotum, and basal abdominal segment 

 piceous ; the head and thorax covered with a thin fulvous pubes- 

 cence ; the legs testaceous brown, covered with a rich fulvous glisten- 

 ing pubescence ; the anal rima testaceous ; the wings sordid hyaline, 

 tegulae and nervures testaceous brow]i. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Ceylon ; Tenasserim. § . Length 8 ; exji. 14 mm. 



*759. Halictus lucidipennis, Smith, Cat. i, p. 62, $ . 



" 5 . Length 2| lines (4-5 mm.). Brassy green, head and 

 thorax closely and finely punctured, antennaj wanting ; the face 

 covered with short white pubescence, and the clypeus ciliated with 

 white hairs. Thorax — the ])ostscutellum covered with a short 

 downy white pubescence, on the sides it is longer but of the same 

 colour, the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax finely 

 reticulate, the sides smooth and shining ; wings clear hyaline and 

 beautifully iridescent, nervures and tegulse very pale testaceous • 

 legs rufo-testaceous, the anterior tibiae and the intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi pale rufo-testaceous, their pubescence white. 

 Abdomen ovate, finely punctured, the apical margins narrowly 

 testaceous and having pale marginal fascite ; the anal rima slightly 

 fulvous ; beneath testaceous. 



" d . Sculptured and coloured as in the femah? ; the antenna) 

 pale fulvous, about the length of the head and thorax, fuscous 

 above ; all the tibitc pale and the margins of the abdominal 

 segments much depressed. 



" Hah. Northern India (coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.)." 



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