8 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



transverse black band ; fifth black, with caudal riraa rufo- 

 fulvous ; hair of abdomen scanty, no bands or patches. 



Microscopical characters : — Face with fine plumose white 

 hairs; front minutely scul[)tured, with very tine punctures 

 in grooves ; disc of mesothorax lineolate and finely punc- 

 tured ; basal part of tegulse with very fine piliferous punc- 

 tures ; first abdominal segment and basal half of second very 

 finely punctured ; apical half of second segment minutely 

 transversely lineolate ; hind spur with two large blunt teeth, 

 and a low wave-like one beyond. 



Hab. Brisbane, Queensland, Oct. 3, 1912 {H. Hacker). 

 Queensl. Mus. 129. 



Related to H. inclinans, Sm., but quite distinct by colour 

 of abdomen and legs. 



Halictus subinclinans, sp. n. 



? . — Length 6*25 mm. 



Head broad, black ; mandibles dark reddish in middle; 

 supraclypeal area and base of clypeus olive-green ; flagellum 

 short and thick, bright ferruginous beneath except at base ; 

 clypeus short, front dull and granular ; mesothorax dark 

 green, dullish, finely but distinctly punctured ; scutellum 

 rather more shining and more brassy ; rest of thorax black, 

 pleura and sides of metathorax with dull white hair ; area of 

 metathorax large, poorly defined, rugulose, with very short 

 plicae at sides basally ; posterior truncation poorh' defined ; 

 tegulse rufo-fuscous. Wings hyaline, stigma amber-colour ; 

 outer r. n. and t.-c. greatly weakened, first r. n. reaching 

 base of third s.m. Legs black, the tarsi obscurely reddish. 

 Abdomen broad, shining brownish black, very finely punc- 

 tured, hind margins of segments slightly reddish ; apical 

 half with fine pale hair, but no bands or distinct patches. 



Microscopical characters : — Supraclypeal area and base of 

 clypeus with tessellate sculpture and fine scattered punctures ; 

 apical part of clypeus also te>sellate and punctate, but the 

 surface more or less undulate and the punctures larger and 

 fewer; front with the dense punctures tending to run into 

 grooves ; mesothorax tessellate between the punctures ; 

 second abdominal segment sculptured like the apical two- 

 thirds of first, basal part of first with much sparser punctures ; 

 tegulse impunctate ; hind spur curved, with a single large 

 broadly rounded (subtruncate) tooth and a low broad 

 (wave-like) one beyond. 



