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covered with pale fulvous hairs ; the clypeus shining, the 

 punctures, especially towards the apex, more widely 

 separated ; the mandibles testaceous in the middle, 

 piceous towards the apex. Antennae black, covered with 

 a microscopic down. Thorax shining, minutely punc- 

 tured ; covered with white hairs, especially long on the 

 pleurae, post-scutellum and apex of median segment ; the 

 area at the base of the median segment longitudinally 

 striated ; the apex at the base very shining ; its central 

 furrow not very wide. Propleurse deeply excavated in 

 the middle and finely striated ; the apex at the top, finely 

 striated ; the meso- and meta-pleurae opaque, shagreened, 

 covered with long white hairs. Legs covered with long 

 white hairs, which are especially thick on the hinder four 

 tibiae and tarsi ; the knees of the front pair, the base of 

 the hinder four tibiae and the tarsi yellowish-testaceous. 

 Wings clear hyaline, the nervures fuscous ; the stigma 

 darker at the base ; the first recurrent nervure is almost 

 interstitial ; the second is received in the apical third of 

 the cellule ; the apices of the basal three segments of the 

 abdomen pale, slightly fringed with pale hairs, the apical 

 segments thickly covered with long fulvo-golden hair ; 

 the ventral surface, especially towards the apex, bearing 

 long pale fuscous hairs, the apical segment for the greater 

 part aciculated. 



HALICTUS BUDDHA, Sp. HOV. 



Long. 5 mm. 2. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothncy). 



Agrees closely with H. salutatrix, and, like it, has the 

 base of the tibiae and the tarsi white ; but the front 

 four tibiae are entirely white; the clypeus broadly white 

 at the apex, the antennae broadly brownish beneath, 

 the base of the median segment much more strongly 

 striolated. 



