62 HYMENOPTERA. 



81. HALICTUS RUGOLATUS, n. s. 



Female. Length 3f lines. The head and disk of the thorax 

 nigro-aeneous, the metathorax black ; head closely and finely 

 punctured, the clypeus black, shining and deeply punctured. 

 Thorax more strongly punctured than the head, the metathorax 

 truncate, roughly and irregularly sculptured, the sides and be- 

 neath rugose ; the tibiae and tarsi above clothed with pale ful- 

 vous pubescence, that beneath is deeper in colour; the wings 

 subhyaline, iridescent, the nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen 

 elongate-ovate, the basal segment very smooth and shining, the 

 rest delicately punctured, the apical margins smooth shining and 

 rufo-testaceous ; at the basal margins of the second and third 

 segments laterally a patch of white pubescence, on the fourth a 

 more or less interrupted fascia ; the apex covered with fulvous 

 pubescence. 

 Hab. Northern India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



82. HALICTUS LUCIDIPENNIS, n. s. 



Female. Length 2^ lines. Brassy green, head and thorax 

 closely and finely punctured, antennae wanting; the face co- 

 vered with short white pubescence and the clypeus ciliated with 

 white hairs. Thorax, the post-scutellum covered with a short 

 downy white pubescence, on the sides it is longer but of the 

 same colour, the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax 

 finely reticulate, the sides smooth and shining ; wings clear hya- 

 line and beautifully iridescent, nervures and tegulae very pale 

 testaceous ; legs rufo-testaceous, the anterior tibiae, the inter- 

 mediate and posterior tarsi, pale rufo-testaceous, their pubes- 

 cence white. Abdomen ovate, finely punctured, the apical mar- 

 gins narrowly testaceous and having pale marginal fasciae ; the 

 anal rima slightly fulvous ; beneath, testaceous. 



Male. Sculptured and coloured as in the female ; the an- 

 tennae pale fulvous, about the length of the head and thorax, 

 fuscous above ; all the tibiae pale, and the margins of the abdo- 

 minal segments much depressed. 

 Hab. Northern India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



83. HALICTUS XANTHOGNATHUS, n. s. 



Male. Length 3J lines. Head and thorax black, very closely 

 and moderately punctured, the face thickly covered with short 

 white pubescence, the apex of the clypeus, the labrum, mandibles, 

 palpi and flagellum beneath, yellow ; the tubercles, tegulae, 

 tibiae and tarsi yellow ; the posterior and intermediate tibiae have 

 a ferruginous stain in front ; wings subhyaline, nervures pale fer- 



