220 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



A NEW WASP FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, BOULDER, CALIF. 



Cerceris angularis, n. sp. 



9- — Length about 16 mm., anterior wing a little over 14; 

 black, with the abdomen largely red ; no yellow markings, except 

 that a high keel between the antennae is pale yellow, and the man- 

 dibles have a broad, dull straw-coloured longitudinal band on the 

 basal half; head very large; eyes converging above; vertex and 

 cheeks very broad, with strong punctures on a shining ground; 

 ocelli close together; face covered with appressed silvery hair; an- 

 tennas black, apical joint partly red; clypeus not "keeled, but trans- 

 versely obtusely elevated in middle, the part above the elevation 

 dull and feebly punctured, that below it smooth and shining, the 

 lower margin indistinctly bidentate, with a little round tubercle in 

 the submarginal region above each tooth; mandibles with an enor- 

 mous triangular shining tooth on inner side about the middle; molar 

 space wanting; thorax dull, with large but not very deep punctures, 

 those on the mesothorax in grooves, the margins of the grooves 

 forming longitudinal ridges, especially in the anterior middle region ; 

 area of metathorax with weak basal plicae, and beyond with oblique 

 plicae, which arch over and join in the middle line, where they be- 

 come transverse; under side of thorax with fine silvery tomentum; 

 mesopleurae grooved, extended into a great angular projection or 

 tooth, the sharp edge of which is vertical; legs black; tegulae black; 

 wings dark fuliginous, venation normal; abdomen with the joints 

 beyond the second not constricted; punctures distinct but sparse; 

 first segment black with an apical red band ; second and third 

 segments bright ferruginous; remaining segments black, except that 

 fourth is red at extreme sides; venter with very minute punctures, 

 and scattered larger ones; fifth ventral segment depressed in middle, 

 sixth deeply incised; pygidial plate finely rugose, narrow, tiuncate. 



Hab. — Mt. Makiling, Luzon (Baker). Structurally somewhat 

 allied to C. elizabethce Bingham, but that is a much smaller species, 

 with different colours. In many ways C. vafra Bingham is appar- 

 ently allied, but it is larger, with a different clypeus, etc. 



Former students of Professor John Henry Comstock have 

 raised a fund, to be known as the Comstock Memorial Library 

 Fund, which is to be presented to Cornell University for a per- 

 manent memorial oi Professor Comstock's forty years of distin- 

 guished service as instructor and professor of entomology. He is 

 to retire from active teaching as a member of the faculty next 

 June, at the age of sixty-five. The ceremony of presentation will 

 take place on June 13. — [Science. 



Mailed June 10th, 1914. 



