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96. HALICTUS CAPITOSUS, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black, the head wider than the 

 thorax, the face nearly quadrate, the clypeus very slightly pro- 

 duced, shining and deeply punctured, the rest of the face and 

 vertex very finely and closely punctured, the flagellura piceous 

 beneath. Thorax very finely and closely punctured, the pubes- 

 cence pale fulvous ; legs dark ferruginous, apical joints of the 

 tarsi brighter, their pubescence fulvous ; the tegulae pale testa- 

 ceous, wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures testaceous. Abdomen 

 ovate, delicately but very closely punctured, margins of the seg- 

 ments testaceous, each having a band of white pubescence more 

 or less interrupted on the basal segment, the two first bands cover 

 narrowly the base of the subsequent segment ; apex of the ab- 

 domen fulvous. 

 Hab. St. John's Bluff, East-Florida; Georgia. (Coll. E. Dou- 



bleday, Esq.) 



97. HALICTUS FUSCIPENNIS, n. s. B.M. 

 Female. Length 4 lines. Black, the head and thorax closely 



punctured, the clypeus having a few elongate deep punctures at 

 its base, the anterior margin fringed with ferruginous hairs. 

 Thorax, the wings fusco-ferruginous, the posterior pair paler at 

 their base, all the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous, the metathorax 

 truncate, the superior margin of the truncation ridged, the en- 

 closed space below the post-scutellum rugose. Abdomen very 

 finely and closely punctured, the basal segment shining; the 

 basal margins of the second, third and fourth segments have an 

 interrupted fascia of pale fulvous pubescence. 



Male closely resembles the female ; the posterior legs and the 

 apex of the femora, the tibiae and tarsi bright ferruginous ; the 

 clypeus has a w r hite spot, its margin as well as the mandibles at 

 their apex ferruginous. Abdomen elongate -ovate. 



This species closely resembles H. coriaceus, but the colour of 

 the wings is different, and the second and third submarginal cells 

 are of about equal width, the second not being narrowed towards 

 the marginal as in that species. 

 Hab. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. (Coll. E. Doubleday, Esq.) 



98. HALICTUS FULVIPES, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 3 lines. Head and thorax brassy green, 

 punctured, the labrum and apex of the mandibles ferruginous ; 

 the flagellum testaceous beneath. Thorax more coarsely punc- 

 tured than the head, having a thin pale fulvous pubescence on 

 the disk, most dense on the sides of the metathorax, which is 



