Records of Bees. 9 



Hah. Launceston, Tasmania, Feb. 15, 1914 (F. M. Littler, 

 2568). 



Allied to H. inclhians, Sm., but easily distinguished by 

 the greater size, darker tegulae, and dark legs. It appears 

 to be the Tasmanian representative of H. inclinans. 



Halictus [Chloralictus) busckiellus, sp. n, 



$ . — Lengtli about 4 mm. 



Head and thorax dark green, abdomen black, hind margins 

 of segments obscure reddish ; mandibles dark castaneous, 

 black at base ; flagellura dull ferruginous beneath ; tegulae 

 rufo-fuscous. Wings rather short, greyish hyaline, stigma 

 dusky reddish. Legs black, tarsi reddish apically. Hair 

 white, rather abundant on cheeks, pleura, and apical segments 

 of abdomen. Head broad, its width 1*3 mm. ; clypeus not 

 much produced, shining, sparsely punctui'ed, the punctures 

 on basal half smaller and closer than those on apical, and 

 nearly all emitting hairs ; supraclypeal area minutely 

 tessellate, with extremely minute scattered piliferous punc- 

 tures ; front very delicately roughened, with a microscopi- 

 cally reticulate sculpture, the middle portion minutely punc- 

 tured, the intervals between the punctures crossed by lines ; 

 mesothorax dullish, minutely tessellate, with scattered 

 extremely minute punctures ; tegulse irapunctate; area of 

 metathorax with a fine file-like striation, the striae very 

 oblique at sides ; abdomen shining, minutejy transversely 

 lineolate; first r. n. meeting second t.-c. ; second s.m. small, 

 third s.m. large and broad, nearly or quite twice as broad 

 above as second ; hind spur with about three long teeth. 



Hah. Island of S. Domingo, West Indies, 7. 8. 05 {Aug. 

 Busck). U.S. National Museum. 



Allied to the Cuban H. parvus (Cresson), but the face is 

 only thinly hairy, the tegulse are darker, sculpture of front 

 is different, mesothorax is duller, and scutellum is not 

 polished. H. plumbeus, Ashm., is readily separated from 

 H. husckiellus by the narrower face and more strongly and 

 closely punctured front ; H. jamaicce, Ellis, is separated by 

 the lighter tegulse, red knees, and mainly red tarsij as well 

 as the closely punctured sides of front. 



