Becords of Bees. 519 



wliite tomcutum, much broadened at sides ; venter Avith 

 stiff white hair, no curled scopa. 



Hub. Purnong, near ^Murray R., S. Australia {S. IF. 

 Fultun ; Nat. Mus. Vict. 136, 2i6, 2.2i> 



A distinct species, readily known by the highly polished 

 mesothorax and scutelluni, and the dense conspicuous 

 abdominal hair-bands. 



Halictiis opacicollis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7 mm. 



Black, with scanty dull white hair; mandibles black, with 

 a faint subapical reddish spot ; flagellum very obscurely 

 brownish beneath ; head broad ; ciypeus opaque, with 

 sparse rather large punctures, except the lower margin, 

 which is broadly shining ; supraclypeal area dull ; middle 

 of front dull, Hnely striate, with obscure punctures betweeu 

 the stria? ; mesothorax dull, minutely tessellate, with widely 

 scattered very shallow punctures; scutelluni shining, dull 

 in middle and posteriorly; area of metathorax very large, 

 finely but very distinctly striate. Legs reddish black or 

 obscurely brownish, small joints of tarsi ferruginous ; hind 

 spur with a large blunt tooth near the middle, and beyond 

 that a long low keel ; tegulee piceous, with a rufous or 

 pallid spot. "Wings dusky, the large stigma dull red, 

 ncrvures fuscous ; outer r. n. and t.-c. weakened ; second 

 s.m. very broad, receiving first r. n. a short distance before 

 its end. Abdomen broad, somewhat shining, the hind 

 margins of the segments obscurely reddish, or the whole 

 abdomen very dark brown ; small triangular patches of dtdl 

 whitish tomentum at lateral bases of segments 2 to 4.-, not 

 very conspicuous ; first two abdominal segments transversely 

 lineolate, subtcssellate, hardly at all punctured. 



Hah. Victoria (type locality j, Feb. and Sept., 1901 {C. F. ; 

 Turner coll.) ; Hobart, Tasmania {Lea ; Froggatt coll. 105). 



A commonplace - looking species, distinguished from 

 H. orbalus, Sm., by the less strongly punctured mesothorax 

 and other characters. The surface of the mesothorax, under 

 a lens, looks much like that of the New Zealand H. smithii, 

 D. T. The Tasmanian specimens are smaller than those 

 from Victoria, with browner abdomen. 



Halicius (jriuniHthora.r, sp. n. 



? . — Length about G.J, mm. 



Black, robust, with dull white hair, slightly tinged with 

 brownish dorsallv : mandibles obscurely reddish in middle; 



