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on either side of the base of the furrow ; the sides of the 

 segment at the area are impunctate ; the rest of it with 

 distinctly separated punctures. The mesopleurae, except 

 at base and apex, thickly covered with long pale fulvous 

 hairs ; the metapleurse covered with a pale fulvous down 

 and more sparsely with long pale fulvous hairs. Wings 

 hyaline, with a slight fuscous tinge ; the apex from the 

 apex of the radial cellule smoky ; the nervures fuscous ; 

 the stigma darker at the top ; both the recurrent nervures 

 are received about the same relative distance beyond 

 the middle. Legs thickly covered with longish fulvous 

 hairs, the tarsi and the anterior tibiae in front testaceous. 

 Abdomen punctured, strongly towards the base, more 

 weakly towards the apex ; the segments shining at the 

 base, sparsely covered with long fuscous hair ; the fourth 

 segment thickly covered with depressed fulvous pube- 

 scence ; the fifth obliquely depressed ; covered with long 

 fulvous hair ; the last segment ferruginous. 



HALICTUS TAPROBANiE, Sp, 110V. 



Long. 6 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon (Rothney). 



Agrees very closely in form and coloration with H. 

 pulchriventris, but is much smaller ; and otherwise easily 

 separated by the striated area of the median segment 

 being distinctly and triangularly produced at the apex, 

 which is not the case in H. pulchriventris ; it is also not 

 hollowed at the apex. 



Antennae black, the flagellum brownish on the under- 

 side, covered with a pale microscopic down. The face 

 below the antennae and the sides as high as the lower 

 ocellus, thickly covered with pale fulvo-aureous pube- 

 scence ; the mandibles broadly ferruginous in the middle. 

 Thorax black ; the mesonotum and scutellum closely 

 punctured, the edge of the pronotum behind and a belt 



