﻿Records 
  of 
  Bees. 
  511 
  

  

  Halictus 
  reprasentans. 
  Smith. 
  

  

  Bacclius 
  Marsh, 
  Nov. 
  5 
  (F. 
  L. 
  Bellinghurst 
  ; 
  Nat. 
  jNIus. 
  

   Vict.) 
  ; 
  Emerald, 
  Victoria, 
  Nov. 
  19, 
  1903 
  (/. 
  A. 
  Kershato 
  ; 
  

   Nat.'Mus. 
  Vict). 
  

  

  Halictus 
  orbatus, 
  Smith. 
  

  

  Fern 
  Tree 
  Gully 
  {R. 
  F. 
  Spry 
  ; 
  Nat. 
  Mas. 
  Vict. 
  252) 
  ; 
  

   Victoria, 
  Sept. 
  1901 
  (C. 
  F. 
  ; 
  Turner 
  coll.). 
  

  

  I 
  cannot 
  quite 
  clearly 
  separate 
  H. 
  convexus, 
  Smith, 
  from 
  

   this, 
  but 
  actual 
  comparison 
  of 
  types 
  would, 
  perhaps, 
  show 
  

   good 
  characters. 
  

  

  Halictus 
  sturfi, 
  Cockerell. 
  

   Mackay, 
  March 
  1900 
  {Turner). 
  

  

  Halictus 
  cyclognathus, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  ^ 
  . 
  — 
  Length 
  not 
  quite 
  4^ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  scanty 
  greyish-white 
  hair 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  large 
  

   and 
  broad 
  ; 
  cheeks 
  broad 
  and 
  flattened, 
  angled 
  behind 
  ; 
  

   mandibles 
  long, 
  strongly 
  curved, 
  cream-coloured, 
  red 
  api- 
  

   cally 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  with 
  an 
  apical 
  cream-coloured 
  band, 
  not 
  

   approaching 
  orbits 
  ; 
  supraclypeal 
  area 
  shining 
  ; 
  front 
  dullish, 
  

   somewhat 
  shining 
  ; 
  antennae 
  rather 
  long, 
  black 
  ; 
  meso- 
  

   thorax 
  and 
  scutellum 
  shining, 
  with 
  sparse 
  minute 
  punctures; 
  . 
  

   area 
  of 
  metathorax 
  rugose 
  and 
  opaque, 
  with 
  a 
  shining 
  rim 
  ; 
  

   mesopleura 
  shining 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  ferruginous, 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  

   dark 
  patch, 
  middle 
  tibiae 
  red 
  at 
  extreme 
  apex 
  and 
  base 
  ; 
  tarsi 
  

   ferruginous, 
  the 
  hind 
  ones 
  dusky 
  ; 
  tegulae 
  reddish. 
  Wings 
  

   clear, 
  brilliantly 
  iridescent, 
  nervures 
  and 
  stigma 
  ferruginous; 
  

   first 
  r. 
  n. 
  joining 
  second 
  s.m. 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  before 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   outer 
  r. 
  n. 
  and 
  t.-c. 
  weakened. 
  Abdomen 
  short 
  for 
  a 
  male, 
  

   shining 
  black, 
  thinly 
  hairy, 
  not 
  spotted 
  or 
  banded. 
  Micro- 
  

   scopical 
  characters 
  : 
  — 
  Front 
  striate 
  (very 
  obliquely 
  at 
  sides 
  

   above), 
  with 
  punctures 
  between 
  the 
  striae 
  ; 
  middle 
  of 
  mesc- 
  

   thorax 
  minutely 
  tessellate 
  between 
  the 
  punctures, 
  at 
  sides 
  

   and 
  in 
  front 
  lineolate 
  ; 
  disc 
  of 
  scutellum 
  hardly 
  at 
  all 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  area 
  of 
  metathorax 
  irregularly 
  subreticulate 
  ; 
  

   punctures 
  of 
  abdomen 
  very 
  minute, 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  dense. 
  

  

  Hub. 
  Croydon, 
  Australia 
  (>S^. 
  W. 
  Fulton 
  ; 
  Nat. 
  Mus. 
  

   Victoria, 
  200). 
  

  

  Quite 
  unique, 
  but 
  apparently 
  allied 
  to 
  the 
  green 
  H. 
  pur- 
  

   nongensis, 
  having 
  a 
  similar 
  head. 
  

  

  