124 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 
Buitenzorg, Java, March 1909 (Bryant & Palmer). U.S. 
Nat. Museum. 
In Friese’s table of Java Halictus (1914) this runs nearest 
to H. thoracicus, Friese, which Messrs. Bryant & Palmer also 
took at Buitenzorg, but the sculpture of the thorax is entirely 
different. 
Halictus palmeri, sp. 0. 
3 .—Length about 5°5 mm.; anterior wing 5 mm. 
Black, rather robust for a male; head and thorax with 
very scanty dull white hair; head ordinary; clypeus pro- 
duced, wholly black, shining, with sparse punctures ; front 
slightly shining, with fine punctures; flagellum very faintly 
brownish; mesothorax and scutellum very highly polished, 
with only microscopical sparse punctures; area of meta- 
thorax rather long, with very fine anastomosing  plice, 
appearing dull and granular under a lens; tegule dark 
reddish. Wings dusky ; stigma and nervures dark reddish. 
Legs black, tarsi reddish apically. Abdomen shining, im- 
punctate, with thin pale hair on apical part, small patches of 
white hair at lateral bases of second and third segments. 
Tijibodas, Mt. Gede, Java, alt. 4500 ft., Oct. 9, 1909 
(Bryant & Palmer). U.S. Nat. Museum. 
Distinct from the species previously described from Java by 
the highly polished mesothorax, without evident punctures. 
Halictus gedensis, sp. n. 
2? .—Lenegth about 6°5 mm.; anterior wing 6 mm. 
Black, the head and thorax with scanty dull white hair ; 
head ordinary, rather broad; mandibles black; clypeus 
shining, sparsely punctured, it and the supraclypeal area 
distinctly longitudinally ridged in middle; front dull; fla- 
gellum very obscurely reddish beneath ; mesothorax shining, 
but not highly polished, with small shallow punctures, and 
the surface microscopically tessellate between ; scutellum 
with a median sulcus; postscutellum with long hair; area of 
metathorax poorly defined, with irregular plier on basal 
part ; posterior truncation small ; tegule reddish black. 
Wings dusky, long and ample; stigma and nervures dark 
brown. Legs black, with pale hair; hind spur white, with 
seven short spines. Abdomen shining, impunctate, without 
hair-bands; apical part and geneial surface more or less 
with pale hair, abundant on fifth segment. 
Tjibodas, Mt. Gede, Java, alt. 5000 ft. (Bryant & Palmer). 
U.S. Nat. Museum. 
Runs in Friese’s table to the much larger HZ. jacobsont, 
Friese. 
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