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groove well impressed, parapsidal grooves faint; truncation of metat. 

 horax not surrounded by a salient rim, its surface finely lineolate; base 

 of metathorax with irregular striae not reaching apex the intervening 

 space lineolate, slightly elevated, making it appear as if enclosed when 

 looking at the insect from the front; mesopleurae rugoso-punetate, 

 metapleurae finely roughened; tegulae and nervui'es testaceous, stigma 

 honey color; second submargiral rather broad, narrowed towards 

 marginal; third narrowed abo^it one-third to marginal; legs brown, hind 

 inner spur with three long teeth; abdomen transversely lineolate, with 

 scattered minute punctures, segments 2-3 with thin lateral basal hair 

 patches of appressed white pubescence and 4 thinly covered with it; 

 Length 4 mm- 



Three Rivers, Calif. (Culbertson.) Ormsby . Co. Xev. July (Baker) 

 Very much like incompleiufi but the different structure of the 

 metathorax readily separates them. This is a Cliloralietiiii. 



4660 Halictus punctate ventris ii. sp. 



Head and thorax brassy green, slightly shining; the metathorax more 

 bluish; pubeiscence of head and thorax dirty whitish; the abdomen brown 

 with a bronzy tinge and thinly covered with white pubescence more 

 abundant apically; facial quadrangle slightly broader than long, face 

 finely lineolate, closely, deeply coarsely punctured; mesothorax finely, 

 very distinctly lineolate, coarsely rather sparsely punctured; median 

 groove distinct but not deeply impressed, parapsidal grooves distinct; 

 base of metathorax rather coarsely irregularly rugose to apex; indistinctly 

 enclosed by the irregular rugae more apparent laterally; truncation not 

 surrounded by a salient rim, the surface finely lineolate; mesopleurae 

 coarsely punctured, shiny; metapleurae finely roughened dull; tegulae 

 dark, with a reddish center, wings slightly dusky, the stigma honey 

 color, nervures more reddish; second suhmarginal aboiit two-thirds as 

 broad as third; third narrowed almost one.half to marginal; legs dark, 

 their pubescence dirty whitish, hind inner sipur with about four long 

 teeth; bases of segments 2 and 3 with thin appressed pubescence; all 

 segments finely closely punctured, the apical margins reddish. Length 

 about 5 mm. 



Claremont, Calif. (Baker.) 



Male. Similar, form paralleil; face broad, narrowed bi'low, antennae 

 fulvous beneath; punctures of head and thorax finer than in 9 and 

 closer on mesothorax; ragae of metathorax more numerous and regukiT 

 than 9 ; abdomen more black, apical margins of segments brown; 

 punctures closer, more distinct.- Length about 5 mm. 



Pine Lake, So. Calif. (Johnson.) This is a ChloralicUis. 



