Records of Bees. 1S9 



r. n. meeting second t.-c. ; abdomen rather short, shining, 

 not evidently punctnred, hind margins of segments reddish. 



Hal). Karachi, N.AV. India {E. Comber). 



Disc of mesothorax not microscopically tessellate between 

 the pnnctures. 



Halictus salsetiensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Black, rather robust, with white pubescence, that on 

 inner side of tarsi orange-tinted ; tarsi ferrnginous at apex ; 

 head broad ; clypeus not much produced, its surface shining, 

 with strong pnnctures and irregular longitudinal grooves ; 

 supraclypeal area with weak punctures ; front dull, granular ; 

 mesothorax and scutellum shining, the disc of the former 

 with scattered punctures of unequal sizes, that of the latter 

 almost impunetate ; postscutellum covered with dull white 

 tomentum ; area of metathorax smooth and shining, with 

 only vestiges of rather oblique ridges ; posterior truncation 

 rather narrow, distinctly margined at sides ; tegulge rufo- 

 testaceous. Wings hyaline, very faintly brownish ; stigma 

 and nervurcs dull reddish ; outer nervures weakened ; 

 second s.m. subquadrate ; first r. n. joining second t.-c. ; 

 third t.-c. with a single curve ; hind spur with three stout 

 spines and a nodule ; abdomen shining, without evident 

 punctures ; sides of first segment with rather small sub- 

 triangular patches, in addition to the usual erect hair; 

 second and third segments with broad basal bands of white 

 tomentum, third and fourth with narrower subapical bands 

 of Avhite hair ; sides of apical segment with fuscous hair, but 

 the rima pallid. Second abdominal segment microscopically 

 transversely liueolate and finely punctured. 



^. — Similar to the female in all but the usual sexual 

 characters ; smaller and more slender ; small joints of tarsi 

 brown ; clypeus produced, entirely black ; fiagellura entirely 

 dark, at most faintly brownish beneath ; first r. n. entering 

 basal corner of third s.m. 



Hah. N.W. India {E. Comber). Type from Salsette ; 

 another female from Nasik. Male from Karachi. 



This may be compared with H. tristis m the Indian fauna ; 

 in the European it reminds one of H. morhillosus and its 

 allies. 



Halictus kalutara, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 6^ mm. 

 Ilobust, black, the pubescence slightly ochreous, greyish 



