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Cameron, Hymcnopteva Orientalia. 



opaque coarsely alutaceous ; thickly covered with long 

 white hairs. Legs thickly covered with fulvous white 

 hairs ; the femora with a piceous tinge beneath ; the 

 tibiae and tarsi fulvous; the tarsi paler. Wings with a 

 faint fulvous tinge ; the stigma and costa fulvous ; the 

 nervures testaceous; the second transverse cubital nervure 

 largely bullated ; the recurrent nervures received shortly 

 beyond the middle. Abdomen shining, impunctate ; the 

 segments edged with white pubescence ; the ventral 

 surface shining, the first and second segments shining, 

 very sparsely haired ; the others much more quickly 

 covered with longish fuscous hairs. 



d. Abdomen thickly banded with fulvous hairs. 



HALICTUS PULCHRIVENTRIS, Sp. 110V. 



Niger; tarsis alb is ; alis fere hyalinis, apice fumatis. 6. 

 Long. 9 mm. 



Hob. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head black ; in front from shortly above the antennae, 

 densely covered with pale fulvo-aureous pubescence, which 

 completely hides the skin ; vertex and front strongly punc- 

 tured, half shining, sparsely covered with fulvous hairs. 

 Antennae black, the second and base of the third joint 

 beneath rufous ; the scape covered with longish pale 

 fulvous hairs ; the flagellum with a microscopic down. 

 Thorax black, a thick band of fulvous pubescence on the 

 pronotum, and a broader belt behind the scutellum of 

 longer fulvous hairs ; the mesonotum covered with short 

 fuscous hairs ; the median segment from shortly below 

 the basal area covered with long pale fulvous hairs. 

 Mesonotum strongly punctured ; a short shallow longi- 

 tudinal furrow on each side of the mesonotum, originating 

 at the base and reaching to the middle. The basal area 

 of the median segment longitudinally striolated except at 

 the apex, where it has some widely separated punctures 



