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closely longitudinally striated except at the apex; which 

 has an oblique slope ; the pleurae shining, impunctate, 

 sparsely covered with white hairs ; at the base of the 

 mesopleurae and above its middle is a wide, deep furrow, 

 extending from the base to the apical third ; the meta- 

 pleurae finely punctured at the base. Legs thickly covered 

 with white hairs. The second and third cubital cellules 

 are subequal : the first recurrent nervure is interstitial ; 

 the second, the third transverse cubital and the cubital 

 nervure from the second transverse cubital, are almost 

 obsolete. Abdomen shining ; the base with a wide, deep, 

 longitudinal furrow ; the apical segments thickly covered 

 with long white hairs ; the fifth segment on either side of 

 the smooth dark testaceous central rima, thickly covered 

 with long pale golden hairs ; the ventral segments pale at 

 the apices ; the sides of the basal segments and the apices 

 of the apical segments thickly covered with long white 

 hairs ; the basal segments in the middle sparsely covered 

 with long white hairs. 



c. Species entirely black ; the abdomen banded with white 

 hairs. 



Halictus sepulchralis, sp. nov. 



Niger; abdomine late albo-balteato ; pedibus longc fidvo- 

 hirsutis ; alls hyalinis. 2. Long. 8 mm. 



Hob. Mussouri {Rothney). 



Head black, hardly so wide as the thorax, the face 

 and outer orbits thickly covered with short white pube- 

 scence ; the vertex and front closely punctured, sparsely 

 covered with long fuscous hairs ; the middle and apex 

 of the mandibles piceous. Antennae black, shining, almost 

 glabrous. Pro- and meso-notum very shining, with only 

 a few microscopic punctures ; sparsely covered with short 

 white hairs ; the post-scutellum with long white hairs ; 

 the median segment at the base with a belt of longi- 



