﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4, 
  137 
  

  

  other 
  segments 
  covered 
  with 
  shallow 
  clearly 
  separated 
  

   punctures 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  segments 
  bare 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  silvery 
  pubescence, 
  especially 
  at 
  their 
  

   apices 
  ; 
  ventral 
  hairs 
  dense, 
  aureo-fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  

   segment 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  fringed 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  

   pale 
  fulvous 
  hairs. 
  Legs 
  stout, 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  anterior 
  femora 
  and 
  tibiae 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  

   the 
  tibias 
  almost 
  rugose 
  ; 
  the 
  tarsi 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  

   long 
  golden 
  hairs. 
  The 
  wings 
  clear 
  hyaline 
  ; 
  the 
  nervures 
  

   black 
  ; 
  the 
  tegular 
  black, 
  edged 
  with 
  white 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  

   shining, 
  impunctate. 
  

  

  Ceratina 
  PROPixguA, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  (PL 
  4, 
  f. 
  20). 
  

  

  Carulea; 
  clypco, 
  gcniculis 
  tarsisque 
  alb 
  is 
  ; 
  alis 
  hyalinis. 
  

   $. 
  Long. 
  4 
  — 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hub. 
  Mussouri 
  (Rothncy). 
  

  

  Head 
  blue, 
  an 
  elongated 
  shining 
  impunctate 
  white 
  

   mark, 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  top, 
  a 
  little 
  dilated 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   on 
  the 
  clypeus 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  in 
  centre 
  broadly 
  carinate, 
  the 
  

   apex 
  however 
  of 
  it 
  being 
  sharply 
  margined, 
  and 
  from 
  

   the 
  ocelli 
  a 
  curved 
  shining 
  keel 
  runs 
  into 
  it 
  from 
  either 
  

   ocellus 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  vertex 
  very 
  finely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  

   face 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  white 
  mark 
  with 
  large 
  irregular 
  

   punctures, 
  which 
  are 
  continued 
  up 
  in 
  a 
  single 
  row 
  along 
  

   the 
  inner 
  orbits. 
  Antennas 
  black, 
  brownish 
  beneath. 
  

   Mesonotum 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  punctured, 
  shining 
  ; 
  the 
  

   scutellum 
  more 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  median 
  

   segment 
  finely 
  and 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  shining, 
  except 
  in 
  

   the 
  middle 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  the 
  pleurae 
  closely 
  punctured. 
  

   Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   femora 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  above 
  and 
  more 
  broadly 
  beneath, 
  

   and 
  the 
  tibias 
  and 
  tarsi 
  white 
  ; 
  the 
  tibiae 
  for 
  the 
  greater 
  

   part 
  fuscous 
  behind 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  tibiae 
  fuscous, 
  white 
  at 
  

   the 
  base. 
  Wings 
  clear 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  nervures 
  fuscous, 
  

   the 
  stigma 
  darker 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  second 
  transverse 
  cubital 
  

  

  