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rather narrow, first recurrent meeting intercubitus ; legs black, the last joint 
bright red at apex, the claws tipped with black ; abdomen shining, finely 
punctured ; ventral segments with bands of white hair. 
Stradbroke Island, Sept. 17, 1915 (H. Hacker). Allied ‘to H. spenceri 
Ckll., but mesothorax and area of metathorax quite different. 
Halictus evasus sp. n. 
Female. Length 7 mm. ; black, head and thorax with rather long white 
hair, quite dense on cheeks and postscutellum ; mandibles black; face* broad 
clypeus shining, punctured, not sulcate in middle; supraclypeal ’area shining’ 
sparsely punctured, the punctures smaller than on clypeus ; upper margin of 
clypeus microscopically transversely lineolate ; front dull, densely punctured; 
antennae entirely dark ; mesothorax dull, very coarsely punctured ; scutellum 
polished, with very fine punctures ; area of metathorax concave, shining, with 
fine regular plicae all over, the hind margin swollen and • obtuse, slightly 
interrupted in middle, hardly shining; mesopleura transversely striate; tegulae 
very dark, almost black ; wings hyaline, faintly brownish ; stigma and nervines 
dull brown ; second cubital cell broad, receiving recurrent nervine at its apical 
corner ; outer recurrent and intercubitus very weak ; legs black, very hairy ; 
hind spur with a large rounded lamella near base; abdomen broad, shinino-i 
thinly hairy, with distinct but well -separated punctures, hind margins of 
tergites not discoloured; second and third tcrgites basally at sides with 
cuneiform patches of white hair ; hair of v enter long and abundant. 
Coolangatta, Queensland, Sept. 6, 1913 (A. J. Turner) ; Queensland Museum. 
Very close to H. confusdlus Ckll., but easily separated by the more robust, dull, 
coarsely sculptured mesothorax, and the shining area of metathorax. 
Halictus limatiformis var. scrupulosus var. n. 
Female. First abdominal segment, and sometimes much of base of 
second, clear red. 
Nanango district, Queensland, Nov. 1927 (IT. Hacker). I thought at first 
that this was a new species allied to H. tatei Ckll., but it is certainly only a 
variety of H. limatiformis, the normal form of which occurs in the same 
district. 
Halictus suburbanus sp. n. 
Female. Length hardly o mm, not very robust ; head broad, dull dark 
green ; mandibles dark reddish apically ; flagellum dull reddish beneath • 
clypeus black, with the upper margin broadly green, and a purple suffusion 
below the green; supraclypeal area finely tessellated and sparsely punctured 
the lower part purplish ; front minutely punctato-striate ; hair of head and 
thorax scanty and white; mesothorax and scutellum dull emerald green, the 
scutellum a little more shining, but not at all polished ; surface of mesothorax very 
finely and densely sculptured all over ; area of metathorax with strong straight 
plicae, but sculptured between, posterior rim shining when seen from behind ; 
