igoS.] Records of the Indian Museum. 361 



Halictus deiphobus, form nov. 



$ , Black. Head, thorax, legs, and abdomen, laterally 

 and beneath with abundant, soft, erect, greyish or fuscous white 

 pubescence ; abdomen with comparatively broad whitish pubes- 

 cent bands at the bases of segments 2 to 4 ; anal rima 

 black. Head, thorax, and abdomen very minutely and densely 

 punctured but not opaque, slightly shining ; on the apex of the 

 clypeus the punctures are larger and more scattered. Head about 

 as wide as the thorax; clypeus broader than long, abruptly trun- 

 cate anteriorly ; antennae short, opaque, bare ; third, fourth, 

 and fifth joints of the flagellum subequal, second joint twice 

 the length of either of them ; face fiat ; vertex arched ; eyes 

 wide apart, their inner orbits parallel ; ocelli large and prominent, 

 placed in a curve. Thorax short, mesonotum strongly convex, 

 with a short impressed line above each tegula ; median segment 

 very short, evenly rounded posteriorly and vertical, the enclosed 

 space at base very large, reticulate, punctate ; legs very stout, 

 the femora and tibiae more thickly pubescent than the thorax, the 

 intermediate and posterior calcaria ferruginous ; wings hyaline, the 

 nervures and stigma light brown. Abdomen as long as or a little 

 longer than the head and thorax united, segments i to 4 with 

 a medial transverse impression more or less obsolete in the middle 

 but well marked on the sides. 



Length. — ? , 8-9; exp. 14-16 mm. 



Hab. — Himalayas: Simla hills, Matiana, 8,000 ft. 



Differs from H. vishnu, Cam., in the abdominal segments being 

 closely punctured right up to the margin, which is glabrous in 

 vishnu^ and from H. buddha, Cam., in the margins of the abdominal 

 segments not being constricted, and in the head and thorax, 

 though closely punctured, not being opaque. It differs also in the 

 colour of the legs. H. vishnu and H. buddha were described from 

 males, and it is quite possible that one of them may be the cf of 

 the present form. 



Halictus lucidipe7tnis, Smith. 



Halictus lucidipennis , Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., i, 1853, 

 p. 62, 2 ; Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897, p. 435. 

 Hab. — Kumaon : Bhim Tal ; Simla hills : Theog. 



Halictus senescens, Smith, 



Halictus senescens, Smith, New Sp. Hym. Brit. Mus., 1879, 

 p. 30; Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897, p. 438. 

 Hab. — Mussoorie hills : Landour. 

 Generally distributed in India and Burma. 



Halictus paris, form nov. 



$ , Black, more or less shining. Head, thorax, legs, and the 

 abdomen laterally and beneath clothed with short, erect, pale 

 yellow pubescence, the abdomen probably in fresh specimens 



