576 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XV, 



$ Similar, more slender. 

 Long. 3 mm. 



Habitat — Quetta ; Peshin; common at tamarisk flowers. 

 Easily distinguished from any other species by the abdomen being 

 almost entirely pale yellow or testaceous yellow. 



Ceratina egeria, n. sp. 

 9 Smooth and shining, the median segment finely rugose at base* 

 Head and thorax black, with a greenish or blueish tinge, abdomen 

 brownish black; the apex of the anterior femora, the anterior tibiae and 

 tarsi, the intermediate tibiae and the tarsi at base, the posterior tibiae 

 below and the tarsi pale yellow ; antennae rufo-testaceous, lighter below, 

 abdomen with a pale yellowish white transverse band at base of 2nd 

 segment ; all the segments very narrowly testaceous at apex, abdomen 

 below more or less testaceous ; wings clear hyaline and iridescent, 

 nervures and tegulae very pale testaceous, scarcely visible without a 

 microscope. 



$ Similar, the clypeus pale yellowish white, the antennae below, the 

 apex of the femora, and the whole of the tibiae and tarsi pale yellow ; 

 the band at base of 2nd abdominal segment, frequently obsolete. 

 Long. 3 mm. 



Habitat — Quetta ; common at tamarisk flowers. 

 Nearest to C. parvula (Smith) from Albania, but may be distinguished 

 by the abdomen not being punctured. 



Ceratina oorinnAj n. sp. 

 9 Clypeus sparsely and shallowly, head closely and somewhat coarse- 

 ly, thorax more finely and less closely, abdomen closely and somewhat 

 coarsely, punctured, the apical margins of the segments constricted and 

 more finely punctured ; clypeus with the anterior margin transverse 

 in the centre, rounded at the sides ) scutelluin with its lateral margin 

 compressed ; abdomen much longer than head and thorax united, the 

 apical segment with a slight keel in the middle at apex ; all the ventral 

 abdominal segments smooth at base, punctured in the middle and at 

 apex, the punctures gradually increasing in size towards apex, 3rd 

 segment with a transverse median furrow. Bronzy green, the clypeus 

 and tubercles pale orange-yellow ; antennae black or blackish ; labrum^ 

 a spot on each side of front near apex of clypeus, and the furrow on 

 3rd ventral segment black : a line on the anterior tibiae the intermediate 

 tibiae at base and apex, the posterior tibiae, and all the tarsi varying 



