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hyaline but with a distinct fulvous tinge, especially 

 towards the base ; the stigma and nervures fulvous, the 

 lower nervure of the costa blackish. Abdomen shining, 

 shagreened, except the base of the basal segment ; the 

 apices of the segments fringed with white hairs ; the last 

 segment thickly covered with long pale golden hairs ; the 

 ventral segments shagreened and covered with long pale 

 hairs at the apex. 



HALICTUS ALEXIS, Sp. UOV. 



Viridis, dense fulvo-hirtus; alls hyalinis, stigmate pallide 

 flavo ; pedibns longe, dense, pallide pilosis. 2 . Long. 7 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



In its bronzy green coloration it agrees with H. pro- 

 pinquus; but it is larger, and the tibiae and tarsi are not 

 yellowish-fulvous, neither are the tegulae fulvous. 



Head uniformly and closely punctured all over, except 

 on the clypeus where they are fewer and much more 

 widely separated, densely covered with longish pale ful- 

 vous hairs; the apex of the clypeus shining, dark bronzy; 

 the labrum covered with long pale golden hairs ; the 

 mandibles entirely black ; their lower side bearing some 

 long pale golden hairs. Antennas entirely black ; the 

 scape sparsely covered with long pale fulvous hairs ; the 

 rlagellum almost glabrous. Mesonotum closely and rather 

 strongly punctured, thickly covered with fulvous hairs ; 

 the parapsidal furrows distinct ; the fulvous hairs at the 

 apex of the scutellum and on the post-scutellum long and 

 thick. The basal curve on the median segment finely 

 and closely rugose ; its apex shining and impunctate ; the 

 apex of the segment with an oblique slope ; shagreened ; 

 furrowed down the centre. The propleurae deeply ex- 

 cavated ; the excavation forming an oblique triangle, 

 obscurely striated down the centre and at the apex 

 thickly covered with white hairs ; the mesopleuras strongly 



