386 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



Halictus siurti, Cockerel). 



Ten females are before me, taken at Mackay by Mr. Tur- 

 ner; eigiit are from Howcrs of Cassia in Deeember, two were 

 collected in March without flower record. 



Halictus iirbanus, Smith. 

 Sydney, N.S.W., Dec. 1, 1910 {Frorjgatt, 114). 



Halictus inclinans. Smith. 



Windsor, Victoria, 1909 {French ; Froggatt collection, 90). 

 This species and the last are both said by Smith to come 

 from Champion Bay. 



Halictus saycei, sp. n. 



? . — Length 4|-5 mm. 



Form ordinary, thorax small ; black, with the dull and 

 granular mesotborax dark green ; the abdomen smooth and 

 sbining, with very little hair, and wholly without bands ; 

 mandibles, knees, tibite (middle and hind ones more or less 

 infuscated), tarsi, and extreme apex of abdomen ferruginous ; 

 scape slender, red basally ; flagellum dark; tegulse shining 

 apricot-colour. Wings hyaline, venation of Chloralictus, 

 stigma rather dilute brown, nervures paler, second s.m. 

 receiving first r. n. a short distance from its end ; tubercles 

 partly reddish ; area of metathorax granular, shining api- 

 cally; hind spur with about three short nodule-like teeth. 

 Ventral side of abdomen with a well-developed scopa of 

 curled hairs. The compound microscope shows the fol- 

 lowing : — Front finely striate, no transverse strife below 

 ocelli ; mesotborax roughened and punctured, anteriorly 

 very finely, rather obliquely, transversely lineolate ; basal 

 part of metathoracic area with vermiform rug?e, apical part 

 microscopically tessellate ; abdomen transversely lineolate; 

 hairs of caudal rima pale orange, beautifully plumose. 



Hab. Mackay, Queensland, April 1900, 2 ? {Turner , 7 c). 

 British Museum. 



llcsembles the Tasmanian H. Umatus, Smith, but differs in 

 the sculpture of the thorax. 



Halictus kesteveni, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length 4-4^ mm. 



Head and thorax dark green, metathorax blue, abdomen 

 shining black, without bands; clypeus and supraclypcal area 



