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strongly obliquely striate. Legs with light hair, pale 

 fuscous on posterior side of hind tihiie ; tegulae pieeous, with 

 a rufous spot. Wings dusky, nervures and stigma dusky 

 reddish ; second s.ra. broad, receiving first r. n. near end ; 

 outer t.-c. and r. n. weakened. Abdomen rather elongate, 

 pure black, shining, very finely punctured, bases of second 

 to fourth segments with dense bands of clear white tomen- 

 tum, visible only as triangular lateral patches on second ; a 

 long narrow caudal plate ; hair of apex fuscous ; long white 

 hair of venter somewhat curled. 



Had. 'Miutherglen, Victoria" (French; Froggatt coll. 

 174). 



Kesembles H. reprcesenians, but easily separated from this 

 and from H. seductus by the character of the metathoracic 

 enclosure. There is a strong resemblance to H. costulatus, 

 Kriechb. (Mark Brandenburg, Falkenberg, June 6, 1875 ; 

 Gerstaecker coll.). 



Halictus sanguinipes, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length about 8 mm. 



Black, with bright chestnut-red legs ; clypeus with a very 

 broad pale yellow band, pointed at each end, and with 

 an upwardly-directed point in middle; mandibles black; 

 flagellum very obscurely reddish beneath ; hair of head and 

 thorax dull white below, faintly brownish dorsally ; front 

 dull and minutely granular, even at sides ; mesothorax 

 rough, glistening ; scutellum brilliantly shining, with irre- 

 gular punctures ; area of metathorax very long, irregularly 

 wrinkled ; truncation small, w ith sharp lateral margins ; 

 tegulse pieeous, with a rufo-testaceous spot. Wings reddish, 

 more dusky at apex ; stigma and nervures ferruginous ; 

 second s.m. rather narrow ; first r. n. joining second t.-c. ; 

 outer nervures strong. Abdomen black, shining, very finely 

 punctured, without hair-bands or spots, clavate in form, 

 narrowing basally ; red apical plate extremely broad, trun- 

 cate, faintly emarginate in middle. The coxfe and trochanters 

 are black, contrasting with the red femora. 'I'he front is 

 microscopically striate, with coarse punctures between the 

 striae. 



Hab. "Windsor, Victoria" (French ; Froggatt coll. 182). 



Close to H.bicingulatus, but easily separated by the clavate 

 abdomen, the colour of the tegula;, and the area of the 

 metathorax. 



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