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black, the flagellum almost bare ; the scape bearing long 

 white hairs. Pro- and meso-thorax impunctate, covered 

 with long white hairs ; the pleurae under the wings 

 striated ; the base of the median segment obscurely longi- 

 tudinally striated ; its apex oblique, slightly hollowed in 

 the centre, the sides margined. Legs black ; the femora 

 with a piceous hue ; sparsely haired, the hairs on the 

 tibiae and tarsi much thicker, especially on the tibiae 

 which have a fulvo-golden hue ; the spurs yellowish- 

 testaceous. Abdomen black, shining, glabrous, except 

 at the apex, which bears fulvous hairs ; the ventral seg- 

 ments shining, impunctate, almost glabrous. Wings clear 

 hyaline, the nervures fuscous ; the first recurrent nervure 

 almost interstitial ; the second received in the apical 

 fourth of the cellule. 



Halictus garrulus, sp. 110V. 



Niger ; pallide fulvo-hirtus ; geniculis, tibiis tarsisqae pallide 

 fulvis ; alis fulvo-hyalinis, stigmate ftdvo, nervis pallidis. d. 

 Long. 7 mm. 



Hob. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head black ; the front and vertex coarsely alutaceous ; 

 the lower part of the face densely covered with golden- 

 fulvous pubescence ; the mandibles dark piceous, black 

 at the base. Antennae brownish, the upper part blackish ; 

 the scape black, sparsely covered with longish pale hairs. 

 The edge of the pronotum, the mesonotum, fringed all 

 round with pale fulvous hairs ; the mesonotum closely 

 and rather strongly punctured ; the scutellum with the 

 punctures more widely separated ; the post - scutellum 

 thickly covered with pale pubescence, completely hiding- 

 its surface ; the base of the metanotum strongly longi- 

 tudinally keeled throughout ; the remainder opaque, 

 closely punctured, furrowed in the middle at the apex 

 and thickly covered with long white hairs. Pleurae 



