66 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xii. 



middle, a band at the base of the second dorsal segment, an oblong, oblique spot at 

 the sides of the third and fourth segments, and a band at the base of the fifth seg- 

 ment, yellow ; wings hyaline, the stigma and veins yellowish. 



The head and the thorax are closely, finely punctured, opaque, the metathorax 

 almost smooth, shining, with a few coarse transverse ridges or folds at the extreme 

 apex, and a deep central furrow ; the clypeus has a median ridge, and is clothed with 

 a dense silvery white pubescence ; the third joint of the antennre is about as long as 

 joints 4 and 5 united ; while the abdomen is smooth and shining, impunctate, the 

 pygidium being subogival, with fine lines laterally and at apex, the disc concave. 



Male. — Length, II mm. Agrees well with the female, except that the abdo- 

 men is somewhat slenderer, the pygidium rounded at apex, convex above, the man- 

 dibles black, bidentate, with a broad yellow stripe within, the front femora and tarsi 

 beneath and anteriorly, the middle and hind tibise beneath and the basal joint of 

 middle tarsi are yellow : hind tarsi black. 



Type. — No. 7108, U. S. National Museum. 



Japan (Dr. Mitsukuri). 



Family XX, PHILANTHIDyE. 

 Genus CERCERIS Latreille. 



Cerceris japonica, new species. 



Female. — Length, 10 mm. Black, strongly, coarsely punctate ; the mandibles, 

 the face, including clypeus, to base of antennas, and the orbits nearly to the apex of 

 the eyes, the scape of antennae, except a line above, two small spots on the prono- 

 tum, the postscutellum, two oval confluent spots at base of second dorsal abdommal 

 segment, a very large spot on each side of the third segment, and a band at the apex 

 of the fifth segment dilated laterally, all yellow. Wings hyaline, faintly dusky at 

 apical margins, the stigma and costal vein yellowish, the other veins fuscous. 

 Legs mostly yellow, with all coxse more or less, the front and middle femora 

 above, the hind femora entirely, a spot on hind tibias within at apex and the hind 

 tarsi, black. 



Type. — No. 7109, U. S. National Museum. 

 Japan (Dr. Mitsukuri). 



Cerceris quinquecincta, new species. 



Male. — Length, II mm. Agrees well with C. japonica, t^ce.]>\. as follows; 

 the scape and pedicel, except a stripe above, are yellow ; the hind coxse, except at 

 base, their trochanters, basal half of their femora and base of their tibia; are yellow ; 

 while the abdominal segments 2-6 are banded with yellow at apex, the first segment 

 with two yellow spots. 



Type. — No. 7738, U. S. National Museum. 



Japan (Dr. Mitsukuri). Described from a single specimen. This 

 species may yet prove to be the male of C. Japonica. 



