Reco rds of Bees. 517 



Halictiis victoriellus, sp. n. 



? . — Length a little over 6 mm. 



Like H. imitans, but smaller and less robust, with the 

 flagcllum dull red beneath ; mesothorax more shining and 

 finely punctured ; area of metathorax shorter, with weaker 

 striae, which are oblique, and on the basal half joined by many 

 little cross-ridges ; stigma testaceous (instead of castaneous) ; 

 hind margins of abdominal segments suffused by reddish ; 

 hair of venter short and not abundant. 



Hab. Victoria, Feb. 1901 (C. F. ; Turner coll.). Two 

 specimens. 



Halidus plebeius, sp. n. 



? . — Lengtli about 6| mm. 



Like //. imitans, but mesothorax and scutellum much 

 more shining, with fine punctures ; flagelluni dull red be- 

 neath ; area of metathorax shorter, with much less distinct 

 striae, which frequently anastomose, so that the surface 

 is cancellate ; stigma smaller ; hind spur yellowish white 

 (red in imitans). The first and second abdominal segments 

 are very finely, but distinctly and regularly punctured ; the 

 front is densely striato-punctate. 



(J. — Length a little over 5 mm. 



Clypeus with a broad ivory-coloured band on apical half ; 

 flagellum long and rather thick, obscurely brownish beneath ; 

 cheeks not enlarged ; legs black, with very slender reddish- 

 brown tarsi ; area of metathorax so finely reticulate as to 

 appear roughened under a lens ; abdomen shining, not 

 hairy. The tegulse have a clear testaceous spot. Known 

 from related males by the small size and dark legs. 



Hab. Purnong, near Murray 11., S. Australia {S. W. 

 Fulton ; Nat. Mus. Vict. 108, 157). The female is the 

 type. 



Halictus idoneus, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length about 7 mm. 



Slender, black, with white hair ; mandibles rufous 

 apically ; lower half of clypeus cream-colour, depressed in 

 middle ; flagellum long, entirely dark, very strongly crenu- 

 lated beneath ; legs black, with the tarsi, and extreme apices 

 of tibise, clear ferruginous; abdomen ])arallel-sided, with 

 the extreme bases of third and fourth segments reddened. 

 Face rather broad, with much white hair ; middle of front 



