486 Mr. F. Smith's descriptions of noc species 



testaceous; -wings hyaline, the ncrvures dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen with fine sliallow punctures, leaving the apical 

 margins of the segments glabrous ; at the apex a little 

 black pubescence. 



Male. — Length 4 lines. Ver>' like the female ; its 

 general pubescence hoary ; on the clypeus, cheeks and 

 thorax beneath it is white ; wings hyaline, with the 

 iiervures testaceous. 



Taken at Wellington, North Island. 



Lamprocolletes fulvesccns. 



Female. — Length 5j lines. Black ; the front clothed 

 Avith dense fulvous pubescence, palest on the cly])eus ; the 

 cheeks have a pale fulvous pubescence ; the ocelli in a 

 curve on the vertex, which is shining. Thorax : the raeso- 

 thorax shining and punctured, clothed with fulvous pubes- 

 cence, Avhich is sparing on the disk ; palest on the sides, 

 beneath, and on the legs ; the apical joints of the tarsi 

 rufo-testaceous ; the posterior trochanters with a floccus 

 of pale pubescence, that on the tibiK dense and fulvous ; 

 the calcaria pale testaceous ; Avings hyaline and iridescent, 

 the nervures pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate and 

 shining ; the apical margins of the segments naiTOwly 

 testaceous and thinly fi-inged with fulvous pubescence ; 

 the apical segment Avitli a bright fulvous fimbria. 



Halictus familiaris. 



Female. — Length 2f lines. Black ; the head and 

 thorax above A'ery closely and delicately punctured, and 

 slightly shining; the clypeus somewhat produced, shining, 

 and with a few strong punctures; the tips of the mandibles 

 rufo-testaceous ; the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath. Thorax 

 delicately pimctured above ; the metathorax truncate, Avith 

 the margins roiuided, at the base above finely rugose ; Avings 

 hyaline, iridescent, Avith the stigma and nervures testaceous; 

 legs Avith glittering, silvery-Avhite pubescence; the calcaria 

 pale testaceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, shining, Avitli 

 the apical margins of the segments narroAvly ruib-testa- 

 ceous ; beneath they are fringed Avith Avhite hairs ; the 

 apical portion of the abdomen Avith a thin, short, Avhite 

 pubescence, Avhich becomes dense at the sides of the anal 

 rim a. 



