18G Mr, Edward Saunders on 



Deep black, face elongate, densely punctured, sparsely clothed 

 with pale brownish hairs, considerably narrowed towards the apex, 

 clypeus shining with very large scattered punctures, projecting for 

 its entire length beyond the eyes, mesonotura punctured and clothed 

 like the vertex, teguhe brown, wings slightly dusky, post scutellum 

 densely clothed with short ochreous pubescence, propodeal area 

 vermiculately rugose bounded by a slightly raised line, abdomen 

 elongate elliptic, shining, rather strongly punctured, depressions 

 wide, but punctured like the rest of the segments, margins scarcely 

 discoloured, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments having a well defined 

 entire band of ochreous-white pubescence at the base, 5th segment 

 with golden red pubescence at the apex and along the margins of 

 the rima ; intermediate tibifB and tarsi and posterior legs with the 

 exception of the coxfc and trochanters entirely clear testaceous. 



Long. 10 mm. 



$ 2, Mechta-el-arbi, on Cichoo^ium intyhus, 16, v, 93. 

 {A. E. E.) 



This very distinct species is apparently allied to tliose of 

 the scxnotatul'Hs group. 



Halictus, sp. ? 



? 1. Bone, 25, v, 96. (A. E. E.) 



Halictus interruptus, Pz. 



^ 8, $ 4. Medea, on Ccntaurca calcitrajM, 12, vii, 93. 

 (A. E. E.) 



$ 12. Biskra, visiting Amwi visnar/a, Peganicm Jiarmnla, 

 Tragamim mulatum, Amberhoa lipj^H, Zizyphns 

 lotus, Ferula vesceritensis, Thaj)sia garganica, 

 Antirrhinum ramosissimum. (A. E. E.) 



Halictus, sp. ? 



Coloration of albipes $, but face much shorter, wings 

 slightly dusky, $ of hiuinculat'iis ? 

 $ 1. Bone, 10, vi, 96. (A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. La Calle, 1, vii, 96. (A. E. E.) 



Halictus vergilianus, Per. 



^ 2. Biskra, in the Jardin b}" Fort St. Germain on a 

 tree with blue flowers, 26, v, 93. {A. E. E.) 



