Records of Bees. 107 



Hab. ^'^Vindsor, Victoria" (French ; Froggatt coll. 196). 



This is evidently I'elated to H. incUnans, Smith, also found 

 at Windsor, but cannot be its male, the mesothorax being 

 much more shiny and sparsely punctured. In both, the 

 tirst r. u. enters the third s.ra. near the basal corner. 



HaVictus holochlorus, sp. n. 

 ? . — Length a little over 6 mm. 



Green, with dull white hair; head broad, rather dark 

 yellowish green ; supraclypeal area shining, rather bluish 

 green, contrasting Mith upper part of clypeus, which is pale 

 golden green ; lower part of clypeus black ; mandibles red, 

 except at base ; front very finely longitudinally striate ; 

 scape slender, black, red at extreme base ; flagelluni ferru- 

 ginous beneath, very dark reddish above ; face and front 

 rather conspicuously though thinh' hairy ; mesothorax 

 l)eaeock-green, quite Ijrij^ht, but granular and with dull 

 surface, microscopically tessellate, with sparse yellow punc- 

 tures, hardly visible with a lens ; seutellum more shining ; 

 area of metathorax large, with fine longitudinal ridges, 

 connected at intervals by cross-ridges, producing a minutely 

 cancellate effect ; upper part of pleura shining green. Legs 

 black or piceous ; knees and small joints of tarsi more or 

 less ferruginous ; tegulse ferruginous. Wings greyish 

 hyaline, nervures and stigma light reddish testaceous; first 

 r. n. meeting second t.-c. ; outer r. n. and t.-c. weakened. 

 Abdomen shining dark brassy greenish ; apical margins of 

 segments pale and translucent, covering the dark feriuginous 

 bases of the succeeding ones ; no distinct curled ventral 

 scojia. 



Hub. ''Cheltenham, Victoria" {French: Froggatt coll. 

 179). 



This is readily known from H. urbanus by the light 

 reddish stigma and green abdomen. From H.Jiorulis it is 

 known by the larger size and other characters. 



Halicius hackeriellus, sp. n. 



(J . — Length about 5 mm. 



Like H. kesieveni, differing as follows : — Head yellowish 

 green ; mesothorax dull brassy, seutellum the same colour, 

 but shining, contrasting with the bluish-green postscutellum 

 and metathorax (but the area is not at all blue, as it is in 

 kesteveni) ; fourth antennal joint conspicuously longer than 

 broad (not longer than broad in lesteveni) ; fiont longitu- 

 dinally striate. As in Iciflcceni. the fir>t r. n. enters base of 

 tliird s.m. 



