218 Mr. E. Saunders' Si/nopsis of 



Thomson says " Mesonoto dense subtilissime punctato," 

 which win not suit Kirby's species at all, and doubtless 

 should be applied, as Thomson himself shows in his 

 synonymy, to suhfasciatits, Nyl. 



20. Halictiis hrevicornis, Schenck. 



Schenck, Jahr. Ver. Nat. Herz. Nassau, xxi., xxii., 

 p. 310. 



c? . Smaller than villosiilus ; face rather round, 

 covered with white hairs in front. Mandibles, labrum, 

 and apex of clypeus, yellow ; extreme apex of mandibles 

 pitchy. Antennae short, only just reaching to the scu- 

 tellum, pale beneath. Vertex and thorax sparingly 

 clothed with greyish hairs. Mesothorax more closely 

 punctured than in villosahis. Wings with the '2nd sub- 

 marginal much wider than in that species. Metathorax 

 radiately striate at the base. Abdomen short, dull, all 

 the segments regularly punctured, the apical margins of 

 the 3rd and following ones narrowly testaceous ; beneath 

 clothed with rather short hairs. Legs with the base and 

 apex of the tibiae, the front of the anterior tibiae, and 

 ail the tarsi, yellowish white ; (for genitalia see pi. ix., 

 fig. 14.) 



? . Head finely and closely punctured, thorax very 

 finely and remotely, its surface shining. Metathorax 

 very finely and irregularly radiately striate at the base, 

 shining on the actual brow. Abdomen with the basal 

 segment shining, finely punctured, and hairy at the 

 sides, disk glabrous and nearly impunctate ; following 

 segments closely and finely punctured, their apical mar- 

 gins widely testaceous, and their surface rather densely 

 clothed with white hairs ; the 2nd and 3rd segments 

 with a little white lateral pubescence at the base. Legs 

 clothed with pale greyish hairs ; each segment of the 

 abdomen beneath with a long fringe of greyish hairs. 

 Length 5 — 6 mm. 



Hah. I have taken the <? at Hayling Island and 

 Bournemouth, but have not seen a British example of 

 the ? . I have described the latter sex from a conti- 

 nental specimen received from Mr. C. Kitzema. 



