Records of Bees. 505 



convex supraclypeal area faintly greenish ; apical half o£ 

 mandibles red ; flagellnm rathei- dull red beneath ; front 

 dullish, very minutely sculptured ; thorax black, Avith the 

 mesot borax and scntellum dark olive-green ; mesothorax 

 dulli.sb_, finely and quite closely punctured, granulated be- 

 tween the pnnctures ; disc of scutcllum, excej)t in middle, 

 shining and very sparsely punctured ; area of metathorax 

 large, rounded behind, its surface covered with a very fine 

 reticulation. Logs black, with pale hair, the knees and 

 small joints of tarsi more or less ferruginous ; hind spur 

 Avith a very large subbasal tooth ; tegulse pale rufo-testa- 

 ceous, darkened at base. AYings clear hyaline, stigma and 

 nervures testaceous; outer nervures much weakened, as in 

 Chloralictus. Abdomen broad, without hair-bands, bright 

 chestnut-red ; the first segment, except the broad apical 

 margin, extending more or less down sides, black. The 

 anterior tibise may be red in front, except apically. 



Variety a. — Rather smaller ; mesothorax more shining, 

 dark bluish green. 



Hub. Croydon, Australia {S. W. Fulton, Nat. Mus. Vict. 

 177, 182j ; var. a, same data (180). 



Closely related to H. sphecodoides. Smith, and perhaps 

 only a subspecies, but distinguished by the abdomen being 

 all red except at base, the stigma paler, the flagcllum lighter 

 beneath. It appears to be the dry- country representatfve of 

 H. sphecodoides. 



It is possible, judging from Smith's description, that the 

 original scries of sphecodoides included the present species, 

 but the type was restricted in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Mist., 

 Sept. 1901, to the form with the apical part of the abdomen 

 dark. 



Halictus caloundrensis, sp. n. 



$ . — Length G ram. 



Robust, with scanty white hair; abdomen without hair- 

 bands 'or spots ; head ordinary, dark bluish green, shining ; 

 mandibles dark reddish apically ; clypcus partly very bright 

 green, well punctured ; a fine sharp keel between the an- 

 tennae ; front finely longitudinally striate, the strite before 

 middle ocellus longitudinal (transverse in trnnsvolans) ; 

 flagellnm dark, obscure reddish apically ; mesothorax very 

 brilliant yellowish green, with curious transverse wave-like 

 plicic, directed obliquely, so as to meet at an angle in middle 

 line; scutellura peacock-green, the disc smooth and brilliantly 

 shining ; area of metathorax with longitudinal plica or 



