56 HYMENOPTERA. 



piceous ; the legs rufo-piceous, the tarsi and anterior tibiae 



paler. Abdomen nigro-piceous, clavate, the basal segment sub- 



petiolate. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



65. HALICTUS JUCUNDUS, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. Brassy green, very finely and 

 closely punctured, the face and cheeks covered with pale pubes- 

 cence, that on the vertex fulvous ; the flagellum rufo-testaceous 

 beneath. The disk of the thorax thinly clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence; the wings hyaline, the nervures and tegulae pale 

 testaceous ; the tarsi ferruginous, as well as the anterior tibiae in 

 front, the pubescence on the tibiae and tarsi pale fulvous. Ab- 

 domen ovate, thinly covered with pale pubescence, margins of 

 the segments depressed and having a band of pale yellow pubes- 

 cence, the anal rima fulvous. 



Male. Closely resembles the female ; the apex of the clypeus, 

 labrum and mandibles yellow, the latter ferruginous at their 

 apex ; the flagellum fulvous beneath ; the tibiae and tarsi of a 

 reddish yellow, the margins of the segments of the abdomen 

 much depressed. 

 Hab. Cape ; Sierra Leone. 



66. HALICTUS SORDIDUS, n. s. 



Female. Length 2 lines. Black, head and disk of the thorax 

 obscurely green, very delicately and closely punctured, the fla- 

 gellum testaceous beneath, mandibles ferruginous ; the base of 

 the metathorax covered with irregular radiating delicate striae ; 

 tegulae testaceous, wings subhyaline, iridescent, nervures ferru- 

 ginous; legs dark testaceous, the tarsi palest; the tibiae and 

 tarsi have silvery glittering pubescence, in some lights partaking 

 of a golden lustre ; the floccus silvery white. Abdomen fuscous, 

 oblong-ovate, smooth, shining and impunetate; anal rima fer- 

 ruginous; beneath testaceous, the margins of the segments thinly 

 fringed with pale pubescence. 

 Hab. New Zealand. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



67. HALICTUS RUFIPES, n. s. 



Female. Length 4i lines. Black, the face closely and finely, 

 the vertex distantly, and the clypeus distantly but deeply punc- 

 tured; the apex of the clypeus and mandibles, the scape and 

 apical joints of the antennae rufo-piceous. The thorax shining on 

 the disk, sparingly but finely punctured ; the metathorax opake 

 and having a lateral thin fringe of white pubescence ; the scales 



