NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN HYMENOPTERA. 575 



Anthidium saltator (Nurse). 



I should add to the description of the $, which I published in the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LXX, Part II, p. 152, 

 that the teeth on the apical segment are as follows : two lateral, short 

 but fairly sharp, and two apical, which are very blunt, with a space 

 between them equal to their width. The apical teeth project much 

 beyond the lateral ones. 



Anthidium florntinum (Fabr.) var. caucasicum (Rad.). 



This species or variety is common in the lucerne fields at Quotta. 



A. FEDTSCHENKOI (Mor.). 



Two specimens from Quetta. 



Camptopceum rufiventre (Mor.j. 



No species of this genus has hitherto been recorded' from India. I 

 obtained at Quetta some 20 specimens of both sexes of a bee of this 

 genus ; the $ agrees with the description of Morawitz's C. rufiventre, 

 and the 9 with that of his C. schewyrewi. All my specimens are 

 undoubtedly one species, and thus the name of rufiventre must stand 

 by the laws of priority. The specimens vary among themselves to some 

 extent, especially as regards the amount of yellow on the thorax ; the 

 wings in the 9 are darker than those of the $. 



This species, having been described from Turkestan, and extend- 

 ing to Quetta, must be widely spread, but all the specimens which I 

 obtained were caught at a particular kind of thistle in an area of about 

 100 square yards. 1 never came across either the bee or the thistle 

 elsewhere. I mention this to show how easily a species, which frequents 

 a special flower, may be overlooked, though spread over a large area. 



Ceratina ino, n. sp. 



9 Head, thorax and abdomen minutely aciculate, enclosed space at 

 base of median segment finely rugose. Head and thorax dark metallic 

 greenish black ; mandibles, clypeus, a spot above it, the antenna? below, 

 pronotum, scutellum, postscutellum, and the legs pale yellowish testa- 

 ceous; antennse above rufo-testaceous ; abdomen pale yellow or pale 

 testaceous, 1st (sometimes also 2nd and 3rd) abdominal segment with 

 a narrow transverse subapical band black ; pubescence greyish white, 

 wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures very pale testaceous, tegulse 

 yellowish. 



