SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



New Bees from Southern California aLnd 

 Other Records 



BY T. D A COCKKRELL. 



HALICTUS PETRELLUS, n. sp. 



Female length M];)()iit Tinni.. with quite abiiiidant white 

 hair; head and thorax dark yellowish-green, abdomen ferru- 

 ginous : strongly suffused with blackish at base, sides and apex I 

 legs black, hairy, tarsal joints (especially the hind ones) 

 tipped with ferruginous hairs on inner side; tegulae translu- 

 cent pale ferruginous, not punctured: wings rather greyish; 

 strongly iridescent, nei'vures and stigma dark brown. Head 

 longer than broad, face narrowied below; anterior half of 

 elypeus shining black, posterior part green and granular, the 

 middle reddish;. face and front dull and granular; some distinct 

 pujictures on each side of the antennae: antennae black, fLagel- 

 lum ferruginous beneath, scape long: mesothorax dull and 

 granular, with A^ery numerous small punctures, no distinct 

 median groove ; enclosure of metathorax covered with minute 

 weak rugae, hardly visible on the posterior part, and not 

 bounded by a sharp rim; hind spur of hind tarsi with four 

 teeth, the two l^asal ones very long; abdomen dullish, with ex- 

 tremely minute j^unctures. Closely allied to H. nymphalis, 

 Smith (Florida specimen from Mr. Robertson compared), but 

 larger, with dark stigma and nerviu-es. and anterior edge of 

 elypeus not testaceous. 



Hab. -San Pedro, Calif., July 11, 1901. (Cockrell). Belongs, 

 to Chloralictiis, Robertson. 



HALICTUS CATALINENSIS, n. sp. 



Female length about (iVomm., roluist and thickset; head 

 and thorax dark green; abdomen broad, black with a distinct 

 brassy lustre, hind margins of the segments with bands of ful- 

 vous-tinted hair, apex clothed with the same : legs black, with 

 yellowish hair; hind spur of hind tibia with few and large, 

 but short teeth; tegulae shining dark reddish-brown; wings, 

 greyish, stigma dull fulvous: third subnuirginal cell nuicli 



