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conspicuous punctures, apical segments with thin white hair, 

 but no hair-bands or patches ; venter of abdomen with a 

 white pollen-collecting scopa. 



Microscopical characters : — Clypeus with sparse strong 

 punctures ; front strongly lineolate ; mesothorax minutely 

 tessellate, with sparse very feeble punctures ; abdomen 

 finely transversely lineolate, with only piliferous punctures ; 

 hind spur with a large blunt tooth and a small rounded one. 



Hab. Bribie Island, Queensland, Nov. 2, 1913 (//. 

 Hacker). Queensland Mus. 109. 



The following table separates it from its allies : — 



Stigma amber-colour ; area of meta- 



tliorax very finely lineolate callaspis, Ckll. 



Stigma dark fuscous or rufo-fuscous ; 

 area of metathorax much more 

 coarsely sculptured 1. 



1. Mesothorax with conspicuous and 



numerous punctures fiindersi, Ckll. 



Mesothorax with sparse very minute 



punctures behri transvolens, Ckll. 



Mesothorax with transverse plica? and 



no readily noticeable punctures . . 2. 



2. Smaller : mesothorax yellowish green, caloundrensis, Ckll. 

 Larger: mesothorax bluish green .... caloundrensis leucurus (Ckll.). 



The last was described as a variety of H. flindersi, but it is 

 in reality a variety of H. caloundrensis, having the same 

 type of mesothorax. 



Halictus rvfotinctus, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 4-4' 25 mm. 



Robust, with short broad-oval abdomen ; head black, with 

 short dull white hair ; fiagellum dull ferruginous beneath; 

 mesothorax and scutellum olive-green, the mesothorax with 

 a slight coppery shade on each side mesad of parapsidal 

 groove (in var. a, the mesothorax is dark blue-green) ; rest 

 of thorax black, the sides with rather copious white hair; 

 mesothorax dullish, finely and closely punctured, disc of 

 scutellum shining ; area of metathorax large, irregularly 

 cancellate ; tegulse castaneous, black at base. Wings 

 hyaline; stigma pale amber-colour ; outer r. n. and t.-c. so 

 faint as to be almost obsolete ; first r. n. reaching apical 

 corner of second s.m. Legs black, with pale hair. Abdomen 

 broad, dullish, first segment shining ; first segment black, 

 second dark castaneous, with a black band across the middle, 

 third and fourth dark castaneous, with a more or less evident 



