Eeco rds of Bees. 511 



Halictus rejirasentans, Smith. 



Bacchus Marsh, Nov. 5 {F. L. Bellinghurst -, Nat. ^NIus. 

 Vict.) ; Einerakl, Victoria, Nov. 19, 1903 (J. A. Kershaw ; 

 Nat. Mus. Vict.). 



Halictus orbatus, Smith. 



Fera Tree Gully (/?. F. Spry ; Nat. Mus. Vict. 252) ; 

 Victoria, Sept. 1901 (C. F. ; Turner coll.). 



I cannot quite clearly separate H. convexus, Smith, from 

 this, but actual comparison of types would, perhaps, show 

 good characters. 



Halictus sttcrfi, Cockerell. 

 Mackay, March 1900 {Turner). 



Halictus cijclognathus, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length not quite 44 mm. 



Black, with scanty greyish-white hair ; head very large 

 and broad ; cheeks broad and flattened, angled behind ; 

 mandibles long, strongly curved, cream-coloured, red api- 

 cally ; clypeus with an apical cream-coloured band, not 

 approaching orbits ; supraclypeal area shining ; front dullish, 

 somewhat shining ; antennse rather long, black ; meso- 

 thorax and scutellum shining, with sparse minute punctures; 

 area of metathorax rugose and opaque, with a shining rim ; 

 mesopleura shining; anterior tibiae ferruginous, with a large 

 dark patch, middle tibiae red at extreme apex and base ; tarsi 

 ferruginous, the hind ones dusky ; tegulse reddish. Wings 

 clear, brilliantly iridescent, nervures and stigma ferruginous; 

 first r.n. joining second s.m. a short distance before apex; 

 outer r. n. and t.-c. Aveakened. Abdomen short for a male, 

 shining black, thinly hairy, not spotted or banded. Micro- 

 scopical characters : — Front striate (very obliquely at sides 

 above), with punctures between the strite ; middle of niesc- 

 thorax minutely tessellatc between the punctures, at sides 

 and in front lineolate ; disc of scutellum hardly at all 

 punctured ; area of metathorax irregularly subrcticulate; 

 punctures of abdomen very minute, not at all dense. 



Hab. Croydon, Australia (.S'. JT. Fulton ; Nat. Mus. 

 Victoria, 200) . 



Quite unique, but apparently allied to the green H. pur- 

 nouyensis, having a similar head. 



