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Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Florida (on Biscayne Key, across 
the Bay southeast of Miami). These, too, were taken on the 
flowers of Alternanthera floridana. In all three localities they 
were encountered on the upper beach, a short distance from the 
ocean, and this agrees entirely with what Viereck and Crawford 
observed in New Jersey and Virginia. According to the for- 
mer’s statement (cited by Crawford, 1), the specimens were 
swept at Ocean City, N. J. (type locality) from plants “growing 
along the strand just within the beach, and constituting the first 
zone of plant life from the ocean.” Crawford (2,580) came across 
this species at Virginia Beach, Va. “on grasses on the beach 
just above high tide limit.” In view of these facts it is safe to 
assume that H. marinus is an inhabitant of the upper sandy 
beaches along the entire Atlantic coast from south Florida to 
New Jersey. 
Halictus (Chloralictus) lepidii, n. sp. 
Female. Length about 4.5 mm. Head and thorax dark 
green, abdomen dark brown. Antennae dark with testaceous 
tips. Facial quadrangle longer than broad, plainly narrowed 
below. Clypeus produced more than half its length beyond the 
eyes. Punctures on front and sides of face small and close to- 
gether, those on supraclypeal area larger and farther apart; on 
the clypeus they become much coarser towards the base, which 
is dark purple. Sides of face with short sparse whitish pubes- 
cence. Mesonotum with fine pucntures, close on top, more 
scattered along the sides. Metathorax coarsely punctured. Scu- 
tellum much more finely and closely punctured than the ad- 
joining portion of the mesonotum. Propodeum truncate with 
smooth rounded angles. Disk with inconspicuous short pliciB. 
No rim. Abdomen ovate. First two segments smooth and 
shining with whitish hairs on the sides. Remaining segments 
covered with short, sparse pubescence. Extreme apical margin 
of each segment faintly testaceous. Front wing about 3 mm. 
long, somewhat dusky. Tegulse black and shining, lighter on 
top, with inconspicuous sparse punctures. Veins dark, stigma 
dark testaceous. Second submarginal cell about as long as 
