Records of Bees. 521 



Readily known by the dark clypeus, small size, and white 

 hair on face. 1 do not know a close relative. 



Halictus repertus, sp. n. 



c? • — Length about 6^ mm. 



Black, rather slender, with dull white hair; head broad; 

 mandibles broadly bright red in middle; lower half of 

 clypeus cream-colour, shining and sparsely punctured ; 

 antennae long, entirely dark ; front dull, extremely densely 

 punctured, except at sides, \\ here the punctures are elon- 

 gated, and well separated ; mesothorax shining, quite 

 strongly punctured, the punctures about as far apart as the 

 diameter of one, the surface between minutely and feebly 

 lineolate ; scutellum shining, sparsely punctured; area of 

 metathorax with coarse irregular ridges, Avith transverse ones 

 between, the marginal area finely lineolate, and inclined to 

 be tessellate ; knees, tibise at extreme apex, and tarsi en- 

 tirely, ferruginous ; tegulae rufous. Wings hyaline, slightly 

 milky, stigma and nervures ferruginous ; outer nervures 

 hardly at all weakened ; second s.m. higher than broad, 

 receiving first r. n. just before end ; third s.m. considerably 

 larger than second. Abdomen shining, but not highly 

 polished, hind margins of segments broadly dusky reddish, 

 the extreme margins becoming hyaline; no hair-bands or 

 patches ; first two dorsal abdominal segments with very fine, 

 not at all dense punctures ; apex with a very large, broadly 

 rounded, bright ferruginous i)late (as in the hedleiji-tasmani'ce 

 grou])) ; ventral segments fringed with white hair. 



Hab. Near Melbourne (Nat. Mus. Victoria, 105). Very 

 close to H. camhaiiei, Ckll., which has a similar caudal plate, 

 but metathorax different. 



Halictus expansifrons , sp. n. 



c? . — Length about G mm. 



Black, robust (like a female), with dull white hair ; 

 heal broad ; mandibles dark ; clypeus with a transverse 

 pale yellow band, having a triangular median projection 

 above; antentue rather long, Hagelluni thick, obscure reddish 

 beneath ; front dull, cxtrcnuly densely punctured, the 

 punctures (seen under microscope) glistening ; mesothorax 

 shining, strongly punctured, sparsely in middle, densely 

 in front, the surface between the punctures smooth and 

 polished : scutellum shining, finely punctured, not depressed 

 in middle; area of metathorax under a lens appearing 



