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Hauicrus MOFFATI, Sp. Nov. 
2. Length about 7 mm.; anterior wing 5°5 mm.; very robust, 
with broad abdomen, but head ordinary ; black, including antenne, 
legs and tegule; head and thorax with thin white hair, bases of 
abdominal segments with bands of white tomentum, conspicuous on 
second ; facial quadrangle longer than broad; sides of face densely 
_ covered with greyish-white hair ; mandibles with a conspicuous spot 
of chestnut-red in middle ; clypeus shining, distinctly punctured, the 
upper part with a longitudinal ridge or keel, the lower with a broad 
flattened area ; front dull, vertex shining ; mesothorax dull, somewhat 
shining laterally, with sparse very distinct punctures; scutellum 
shining: truncation of metathorax large and sharply defined all 
round, sloping so as to greatly reduce the basal dorsal area, the basal 
area a mere transverse band crossed by plice; tegule with large 
punctures ; wings dusky, nervures and stigma dark fuscous, the latter 
reddened in middle; marginal cell truncate at end; second submarginal 
narrow, much higher than long, receiving the first recurrent nervure 
at its apical corner; third submarginal about twice as broad as second ; 
outer recurrent and transversocubital weakened but distinct; hind 
tibia with much silver-white hair ; hind spur with a long obtuse spine, 
followed by three rounded teeth, the first large (a section of a circle), 
the second smaller, the third scarcely visible; abdomen moderately 
shining, very finely punctured ; caudal rima fringed with pale, slightly 
yellowish hair. 
Doonside, 17th January, 1917 (A. L. Bevis). A singular species, 
recognisable among the Natal forms by the black tegule, white band 
at base of second abdominal segment, distinctly punctured mesothorax 
and especially the peculiar metathorax. Two specimens were obtained. 
HALICTUS PHILIPI, sp. nov. 
2. Length about 7:2 mm., anterior wing 6°1 mm.;_ black, with 
the hind margins of abdominal segments suffusedly reddish-brown ; 
head and thorax with much pale grey hair, short on mesothorax, on 
scutellum long and more or less fuscous; head broad; mandiblés 
rufescent in middle; clypeus shining, with irregular sparse punctures ; 
front dull, shining just below ocelli; antenne black, the flagellum 
bright rufous beneath apically; mesothorax dullish, with minute 
punctures, median groove very deep and distinct; scutellum shining 
on disc ; post-scutellum large, with dense moss-like tomentum ; area 
of metathorax rather poorly defined, glistening, with many fine 
