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ANDKEN1DJE. 



This species is distinguished from the typical one, T. metallicum, 

 by the different sculpturing of the metathorax. 



3. Temnosoma lsBvigatum. 



Female. Length 3 lines. — Head and thorax green, strongly punc- 

 tured, with shades of blue on the vertex ; abdomen blue-green, 

 smooth, shining, and impunctate. Head subquadrate, with the 

 antenna; black. The metathorax with a few strong divergent 

 striae, which are enclosed by a smooth impunctate shining space, 

 beyond which it is punctured ; wings hyaline and iridescent, 

 slightly clouded towards their apical margins, the nervures black, 

 the tegulae impunctate, smooth, and shining green ; the legs green. 

 Abdomen, the two basal segments with their margins slightly 

 constricted. 



Hob. St. Paulo, on the Amazons. 



HALICTUS, Latr. 



1. Halictus senescens. 



Female. Length 3| lines. — Black, with hoary pubescence. The 

 head pubescent, most dense on the face and cheeks ; the nagellum 

 fulvous beneath. Thorax sparingly pubescent on the disk, which 

 is finely punctured ; the postscutellum thickly covered with a downy 

 white pubescence, on the sides and beneath thinly pubescent ; the 

 legs rufo-piceous and pubescent, very bright and glittering on the 

 tarsi ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegulae rnfo- 

 testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the base pubescent ; at the basal 

 margin of the second and third segments there is a narrow fascia 

 of fine short pubescence, and a broader fascia on the apical 

 margins of the third and fourth ; on the apical segment the pubes- 

 cence is pale fulvous ; beneath, the segments are fringed with long 

 pubescence. 



Hah. Bombay district. 



2. Halictus vernalis. 



Female. Length 2^ lines. — Bright metallic green. The head very 

 closely and finely punctured, somewhat rounded, with the clypeus 

 slightly produced, its apical portion shining, of a purple colour, and 

 with a few strong punctures ; the nagellum fulvous beneath ; the 

 sides of the face with short pale pubescence. Thorax shining, 

 finely punctured ; the metathorax finely rugulose at the base, and 

 with a smooth shining space beyond ; wings hyaline and iridescent, 

 the nervures and tegulae pale testaceous ; the legs pale ferruginous, 



