CERIA., 335 



262. Ceria polistoides, sp. nov. 



$. Head bright yellow; vertex broadly brownish-orange, 

 slightly raised; two impressed lines crossing each other diago- 

 nally in middle of Frons ; a rather narrow median facial stripe, 

 and a similar one on either cheek, both facial and cheek stripes 

 brownish-orange, and the upper part of the facial stripe outlined 

 at sides with black; a small black spot on each side just below 

 base of antennal petiole; the latter, and the antennae, wholly 

 brownish-orange. Occiput only moderately prominent behind 

 the vertex and only for a short space; again prominent in the 

 lower part, but flush with eye-margins at their middle ; bearing a 

 little white iiair below, but bare elsewhere. Thorax : greater 

 part of dorsum black, side margins moderately broadly brownish- 

 orange ; there are large, bright yellow spots of the usual shapes 

 on humeri, at ends of suture, with three on either side on the 

 pleurse, those on mesopleura and pteropleura not contiguous. A 

 pair of stripes on hinder half of dorsum extends from suture 

 nearly to hind margin, and there are two narrow, short, trans- 

 verse spots of yellow pubescence along the suture. A brownish- 

 orange frenulum or ridge joins the base of tlie wings with the 

 scutellum ; and there is a small brownish-orange, triangular, 

 rather indistinct spot on the anterior margin of the dorsum on 

 each side, contiguous to the humerus. Pleura> black, with a little 

 whitish dust ; narrowly brownish-orange between the upper two 

 of ttie pleural yellow spots and also below wing-base. A lai-ge 

 yellow spot at hinder end of sternum. .Scutellum yellow. 

 Abdomen brownish-orange; 1st seg:nent yellow on basal half, 

 rest black, the latter extending forwards in centre ; 2nd nar- 

 rowly yellow at base, remainder with a rather reddish tinge; 

 hind margins of 2nd, 3rd and 4th with moderately broad, well- 

 defined, bright yellow bands, the minute black bristles in front of 

 these hind margins causing the surface in that region to ajipear 

 darkened; -1th segment indistinctly white-dusted about middle; 

 a little whitish pubescence at sides of 2nd segment. Lei/s bright 

 orange; basal half of hind feniora and of hind tibiae lemon- 

 yellow, that of the anterior pairs also lemon-yellow but less 

 distinctly so ; last two joints of hind tarsi dark brown. Whu/s pale 

 yellowish-grey; anterior half, lo 3r(l vein, yellowish-brown, the 

 veins a little more darkly sufl'uscd. 



Lenrith, \'A nnn. 



Descriiied from a single $ in the British Museum, from .Simla, 

 V.1S97 (yarse). 



263. Ceria patricia, sp. nov. 



c? 2. Head: eyes in J quite contiguous for a short distance; 

 vertical triangle conspicuously elevated, extending hack somewhat, 

 orange, with a central black spot bearing the ocelli and a slun-t 



