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upper half obliquely sloped, cubital cellule 2. half the length of the 3.; recurrent nervure 1. received in front of 

 the 2. transverse cubital, almost interstitial ; metanotal are closely, rugosely punctured throughout, sides to the 

 centre rounded, clearly margined, centre almost transverse. L. 5 mm. 



Front, face and clypeus thickly covered with white pubescence, clypeus strongly, almost rugosely 

 punctured except on the apex; face irregularly rugose; front and vertex opaque, coarsely alutaceous; mesonotum 

 and scutellum shining, sparsely, indistinctly punctured ; pleurae finely rugose ; abdomen shining, impunctate, apices 

 of the segments testaceous. 



Kapland— Museum Grounds Grahamstown im November. 



Halictus virescens Lep. var. africanus Friese. 

 1908 Halictus virescens var. africanus Friese, 9, in: Sjöstedt: Eilimandjaro-Exp., Bd. VIII, p. 124. 



?. Wie H. virescens, aber Beine braungelb, Tarsenglied 1 der Beine II und III weißgelb. L. 6 V2 mm, 

 Br. 2 mm. 



1 ? von Kibonoto am 6. September, 1000 — 1300 m. 

 Kilimandjaro — Deutsch-Ostafrika. 



Halictus vittatus Sm. 



1853 Halictus vittatus Smith, 9> > n : Cat- Hym. Br. Mus., Vol. I, p. 53. 



9. Black, the face and vertex have a thin pale fulvous pubescence, on the cheeks it is paler, the clypeus 

 shining, coarsely sculptured at the apex and ciliated with ferruginous hairs, the antennae beneath rufo-piceous 

 towards their apex. Thorax clothed with pale fulvous pubescence, most thinly so on the disk; base of the 

 metathorax enclosed by an elevated ridge; wings rufo-hyaline, nervures ferruginous, tarsi ferruginous, beneath 

 clothed with bright ferruginous hair, above with fulvous. Abdomen ovate, delicately punctured, the apical margins 

 of the segments cream-coloured, in some specimens having a reddish hue and also varying a little in width in 

 different specimens. L. 5 lines (= ioV 2 mm). 



Kapland. Coli. Saunders. 



Halictus volutatorius Cam. 

 1905 Halictus volutatorius Cameron, 9, in: Rec. Albany Muse, Vol. I, p. 185. 



9. Black, abdomen ferruginous, tegulae pieeous red ; wings clear hyaline, stigma fuscous, nervures darker 

 coloured. L. 6 mm. 



Antennae fuscous beneath towards the apex; clypeus shining, strongly but not closely punctured; face 

 more weakly punctured; apex of clypeus fringed with short golden pile and more sparsely with long white 

 hair; front alutaceous, thickly covered with fuscous pubescence, vertex shining; pro- and mesonotum shining, 

 sparsely punctured. 



Metanotal area closely, finely reticulated, without an apical border; mesopleurae coarsely alutaceous 



opaque; base of 1. segment sparsely covered with long white hair, the apical thickly covered with white pile 



and more sparsely with long white hair; segments smooth and shining; anal rima rufo-piceous, bordered with 



golden pubescence; the basal 3 abscissae of radius become successively longer, but not much; 3. transverse 



cubital nervure in front has a small part straight and oblique, rest roundly curved. 



Kapland — Brak Kloof. 



Jenaische Denkschriften. XIV. 9 Schultze, Forschungsreise in Südafrika. II. 



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