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FOUR NEW SPECIES OF HALICTUS FROM MAINE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John. H. Lovell
Affiliation:
Waldoboro, Maine.

Extract

Halictus hortensis, n. sp. ♀.—Length, 5 mm. Head and thorax green, abdomen black, with the apical margins of the segments brown. Head nearly as broad as long, face finely and densely punctured, thinly clothed with a short white pubescence; mandibles bidentate, rufous at tips; antennæ black, pubescent, flagellum with minute appressed hairs, brownish beneath. Mesothorax nearly bare, finely and sparsely punctured; disc of metathorax rounded or somewhat traingular, evenly and finely rugulose or roughened.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1905

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References

* Parts I., II. and III. appeared in the Journal N. Y. Entom. Soc., Vol. X.

* Dr. Chr. Schrœder, Zeitschrift f. Entom., July, 1904, p. 257.

* Probably by an error in proof-reading the text on page 39, Papilio, I., reads: “3 females, Prescott, Ariz; 1 male, Dalles, Oregon.” Henry Edwards had no females of this species. In his collection at the Museum of Nat. Hist., New York City are 3 males from Prescott, Ariz., and 1 males from Dalles, Oregon.