192 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



Black, with rather dull white pubescence ; face and cheeks 

 rather tliiuly pilose all over ; clypeus very small^ shining, 

 striate or grooved; front dull and minutely granular; vertex 

 shining ; flagellum ferruginous beneath apically; meso- 

 thorax dull, finely and closely punctured ; scutellum shining, 

 finely punctured ; postscutellum with white tomentum ; 

 area of metathorax poorly defined, with a fine raised reti- 

 culation. Tailing apically; posterior truncation shining, well- 

 defined, Avitli sharp edges, the upper lateral angles very obtuse; 

 teguise rufo-tcstaceous, fuscous basally. Wings dusky 

 hyaline, stigma and nervures dull testaceous ; second s.m, 

 broad, receiving first r. n. at its apical corner ; third t.-c. and 

 second r. n. greatly weakened. Hair of legs white, shinins: en 

 hind tibiae, pale yellowish on iraier side of tarsi. First 

 abdominal segment very smooth and shining, the others 

 more granular ; continuous basal bands of white tomentum 

 on second to fourth segments ; hair at apex glittering, along 

 sides of rima faintly yellowish ; hind spur with large spines. 

 Second abdominal segment with fine punctures, each bearing 

 two little bristles. 



Hah. Nasik, N.W. India {E. Comber). 



Halictus perhumilis, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 7 mm. 



Very close to 77. nasicensis, but larger, eyes more eraargi- 

 nate, niesothorax less densely punctured ; area of metathorax 

 shining, with strong ridges reaching the posterior margin ; 

 otherwise practically the same. 



IJub. Karachi, N.W. India, two specimens [E. Comber). 



The following characters are seen with tl;e compound 

 microscope : front densely punctate, the punctures more or 

 less in grooves, but the sculpture obscured by short plumose 

 hairs ; disc of mesothorax tessellate, with strong punctures, 

 about as far apart as the diameter of one; second abdominal 

 segment with very minute well-separated punctures, mostly 

 bearing a pair of little bristles. This species may be com- 

 pared with H. lineolatus. In Frey-Gessuer's table of Swiss 

 species it '•uns straight to H. quadrls'igiiatus, Schk. 



Halictus cameronellus. n. n. 

 Halictus himnlayensis, Cameron, Eutomologist, 1904, p. 210 (not 

 Bingham, 1898). 



Halictus strandiellus, n. u. 



Halictus cei/louicus, Strand, Berl. eut. Zeits. 1900, p. 1S7 (not 

 Cameron, '1902). 



