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  Cameron, 
  Hymcnoptcra 
  Oricntnlia. 
  

  

  nervures 
  roundly 
  curved 
  and 
  meetinj^^ 
  closely 
  at 
  the 
  top, 
  

   where 
  they 
  are 
  separated 
  by 
  about 
  the 
  space 
  bounded 
  b}- 
  

   the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  and 
  second 
  transverse 
  cubital 
  nervures 
  ; 
  

   the 
  third 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  is 
  twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  

   the 
  space 
  bounded 
  b}' 
  the 
  second 
  recurrent 
  and 
  third 
  

   transverse 
  cubital 
  nervures. 
  Abdomen 
  closely 
  shagreened, 
  

   shining 
  and 
  impunctate 
  at 
  the 
  apices 
  of 
  the 
  segments 
  

   above 
  and 
  beneath. 
  

  

  Differs 
  from 
  the 
  other 
  green 
  and 
  blue 
  species 
  by 
  the 
  

   ver}' 
  much 
  less 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  head 
  and 
  thorax. 
  

  

  Ceratina 
  taproban.e, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Vividis 
  ; 
  abdouiinc 
  nigra, 
  late 
  flavo-balteato 
  ; 
  pedibm 
  

   flavis 
  ; 
  alls 
  hyalinis. 
  Long, 
  fere 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Ceylon 
  {Ycrhury). 
  

  

  Head 
  green, 
  shining, 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  pale 
  hairs, 
  

   clypeus, 
  labrum, 
  mandibles, 
  and 
  palpi 
  pale 
  yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  with 
  two 
  black 
  lines. 
  Scape 
  of 
  the 
  antennae 
  

   yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  yellow 
  beneath, 
  black 
  above. 
  

   Thorax 
  green, 
  the 
  scutellum 
  dark 
  purple 
  ; 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   notum 
  of 
  a 
  darker 
  green 
  than 
  the 
  mesonotum, 
  coarsel}- 
  

   alutaceous 
  ; 
  the 
  pleurae 
  green, 
  very 
  finely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  

   the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  and 
  the 
  tubercles 
  lemon- 
  

   yellow. 
  Legs 
  yellow; 
  covered 
  densely 
  with 
  white 
  hairs; 
  

   the 
  coxce, 
  trochanters, 
  the 
  basal 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   femora 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  middle, 
  and 
  the 
  basal 
  

   fourth 
  of 
  the 
  hinder, 
  black. 
  Wings 
  hyaline 
  ; 
  the 
  stigma 
  

   and 
  nervures 
  pallid 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  the 
  recurrent 
  nervures 
  

   are 
  almost 
  interstitial. 
  Abdomen 
  pallid 
  yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  

   second 
  and 
  third 
  segments 
  broadly 
  black 
  in 
  the 
  middle; 
  

   the 
  others 
  broadly 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  

   segments 
  broadh' 
  banded 
  with 
  black. 
  

  

  