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Cameron, Hymcnoptcra Oricntalia. 



and closely punctured ; the hairs very long and thick ; 

 the metapleurse finely punctured ; the middle finely 

 striated. Legs, especially the hinder, thickly covered 

 with pale fulvous hairs ; the femora with the hairs longer 

 and much sparser ; the fore femora beneath glabrous, 

 shining, black; the tarsi ferruginous at the apex. Wings 

 clear hyaline, the stigma and nervures yellowish-testa- 

 ceous, the stigma darker ; the second cubital cellule at 

 the top somewhat shorter, at the bottom equal in length 

 to the third at the top, which is there scarcely half the 

 length it is at the bottom; the first recurrent nervure is 

 almost interstitial ; the second received near the apical 

 third. Abdomen dark bluish-green ; the segments fringed 

 with pale fulvous pubescence ; the apical very thickly 

 with longer fulvous hair, except on the furrow in the 

 centre. Ventral segments shining, thickly covered with 

 long pale fulvous hairs. 



Halictus discursus, sp. nov. 



Long, fere 4 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Comes near to H. propinquus Sm., but may be known 

 from it by its smaller size, by the thorax not being 

 thickly covered with white hairs, and by the deep, wide, 

 longitudinal furrow on the base of the mesopleurse ; and 

 by having a short longitudinal furrow at the base of the 

 mesonotum. 



Bluish-green, metallic, shining, the knees, tibiae and 

 tarsi rufo-testaceous ; wings clear hyaline, the stigma and 

 nervures pallid, the stigma somewhat darker. The apex 

 of the clypeus is bronzy ; the labrum is thickly covered 

 with long golden hairs ; the mandibles and trophi tes- 

 taceous ; scape of the antennae black ; the flagellum 

 brownish beneath ; covered with white microscopic pile. 

 The area at the base of the median segment finely and 



