Ixecords of Bees. 5 1 5 



Halicius kiirandcnsis, sp. n. 



S . — Length about 6i mm. 



Kather robust, black, with dull white hair ; apical half 

 of clypens (narrowing laterally, not reaching sides) bright 

 lemon-yellow, but the actual margin light ferruginous ; 

 labrum pale reddish ; mandibles with apical part chestnut- 

 red ; clypeus prominent, face narrowed below ; flagcllum 

 very long (about 4 mm.), strongly crenulate beneatli, very 

 obscurely reddish ; front dull ; clieehs small ; tubercles 

 slightly brownish ; disc of mesothorax glaucous, with very 

 fine scattered punctures ; area of metathorax very large, 

 hardly defined at sides, covered Avith labyrinthiforra ridges ; 

 raesopleura obliquely striated; truncation of metathorax 

 very sharply defined at sides ; tcguhe rather large, piceous, 

 with the margin narrowly lighter. Wings hyaline, slightly 

 dusky, strongly iridescent ; stigma and nervures ferruginous ; 

 outer nervures strong; first r. n, meeting second t.-c. ; 

 second s.m. higher than broad. Legs reddish-black, the 

 tarsi obscure reddish brown. Abdomen shining, without 

 hair-bauds ; broad apical margins of segments strongl}'^ 

 shining and slightly elevated, but the region before thcin 

 duller and more or less glaucous. The microscope shows 

 the front to be coarsely striato-])unctatc. 



Hah. Cairns, Queensland, '' Kur. 4.02'' {rurner). 



]5y the striated pleura it resembles H. circumdatus ; by 

 the glaucous mesothorax it resembles H. tertius ; from both 

 it is readily separated by the sculpture and other characters. 



Halictiis helichri/si, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7 mm. 



Black, with dull wliite hair, the broad abdomen thinly 

 haii'v at sides and dorsally beyond middle, but not banded ; 

 mandibles bidentate, with more than the apical half chestnut- 

 red ; flaficllum chestnut-red beneath, except at extreme 

 base : hind margins of second and thii'd abdominal segments 

 narrowly reddish, of fourth broadly hyaline; legs black, 

 tarsi reddened apically; head broad ; clypeus shining, with 

 irregular not very large punctures ; front glistening at 

 sides, dull in middle, where it is extremely densely punctured, 

 the punctures more or less in rows ; mesothorax shining, 

 with strong Avell-separatcd ))unctures; scutellum shining, 

 with very small punctures; metatlioracic area with very fijie 

 sinuous rug'.e; sides of ai)ical truncation not sharply defined ; 

 teguUc rufous, piceous at base, Wings clear, nervures and 



