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labrum, mau(lil)lcs, and lower margin of clypciis light ferru- 

 ginous ; front (lull anil minutely granular j scape sleiuler, 

 light ferruginous; tlagellum ferruginous beneath; nieso- 

 tliorax very bright green, shining, very finely punetured ; 

 seutellum shining, rather more brassy ; metathorax dark 

 bluish green, the area Avith fine wrinkles, those about the 

 middle transverse ; pleura coloured like metathorax. Legs 

 entirely light ferruginous, hind spur sim])le ; teguhc light 

 rufo-testaeeous. AViugs clear; stigma and nervures honey- 

 colour, the stigma large. Abdomen shining ferruginous, 

 with slight transverse du^ky clouds, but base not dark. 



Had. Sydney, New South Wales, Nov. 29, 1910 {Froyyatt). 



The type is gummed on a card with a specimen of Hpunc- 

 iatiis ; they were probably taken at the same spot. Ha/ictus 

 (lottitus is related to H. vitripennis, Smith, but the scape is 

 red and the base of the abdouaen is not black. The red lower 

 part of clypeus is also distinctive. The mesothorax is more 

 shining aud much brighter green than in //. eyrei, Ckll. 



Halictus dampieri, Cockerell. 



A new locality is Kuranda, Cairns, Queensland, Dec. 1901 

 {Turne)-). A long sei'ios of females taken by ^Ir. Turner at 

 -Slackay is all from flowers of Euyenia, except one from 

 Cassia. 



Halictus behri transvolans, subsp. n. 



? . — Clypeus yellowish green varying to blue-green ; 

 supraclyyeal area brass-colour or concolorous with the front 

 and sides of face ; mesothorax peacock-green ; seutellum 

 brassy green varying to peacock-green ; abdomen shining 

 dark green ; scape black, with a minute red spot at extreme 

 base ; underside of flagellum wholly pale ferruginous. 



Hob. Mackay, Queensland, March 19U0 and Jan. 18C0 

 [Turner, 757). 



C\ose to H. flindersi. Ckll., and having the same ventral 

 scopa on abdomen and transverse lineolation in front of 

 anterior ocellus, but easily separated by the ferruginous 

 (variously infuscated) tibise and tarsi. The type is in the 

 13ritish Museum. 



Halictus for resti, Cockerell. 



Five males before me, taken by Mr. Turner at Mackay, 

 are all from flowers of Eucalyptus in March. 



