g6 Cameron, Hymcnoptcra Ovicntalia. 



tured as the mesonotum ; the median segment stoutly 

 reticulated ; its apex oblique shining, not reticulated. 

 Propleurae smooth, piceous ; the base with some longitu- 

 dinal keels ; the apex fringed with woolly hairs ; the 

 mesopleurae coarsely rugosely punctured ; the metapleurae 

 with an oblique smooth space in the centre, the base 

 and apex coarsely punctured. Legs obscure piceous ; 

 the femora darker ; sparsely covered with white hairs. 

 Wings hyaline ; the nervures and stigma fuscous ; the 

 first recurrent nervure received quite close to the trans- 

 verse cubital ; the second in the apical third of the 

 cellule. The basal three segments of the abdomen 

 rufous, widely suffused with black in the middle ; the 

 apical segments sparsely covered with white hairs ; the 

 ventral segments coloured like the dorsal. 



One of this species has projecting from the apex of 

 the third dorsal segment the larvae of one of the Stylopidce, 

 probably a Halictophagus. 



HALICTUS INVIDUS, Sp. 110V. 



Niger ; thorace fortiter punctato ; metanoto reticulato ; 

 abdominis medio ferrugineo ; alis hyalinis, apice fere fumatis. 

 2. Long. 7 — 8 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri {Rothney). 



Head rugosely punctured; below the antennae thickly 

 covered with white hairs ; the front and vertex more 

 sparsely covered with longer white hairs. Mandibles 

 piceous in the middle ; underneath with a few long golden 

 hairs. Antennae stout, the flagellum thickly covered with 

 longish white hairs ; the joints of the flagellum dilated 

 broadly beneath ; towards the apex bearing a white 

 microscopic pile. Thorax coarsely rugosely punctured ; 

 the punctures on the apex of the mesonotum larger and 

 more widely separated ; the base of the median segment 

 with stout longitudinal keels, irregular in the middle, 



