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Abdomen red and black; very small; face with a very broad light band; legs 



red, with hind femora mainly black (Zululand) jiicundn Sin. 



Abdomen not red 1. 



1. Face all black paiiurgoides Sm. 9 • 



Face not all black 2. 



2. A broad cream-colored stripe down middle of clypeus (Abyssinia). 



Candida Sm. 9. 



Clypeus with a very narrow whitish stripe; inner orbits narrowly sordid 



white (Sierra Leone) pictifrons Sm. 9 • 



EXOXKDRA Smith. 

 Exoneura bicolor Sm. is essentially an Allodape with only one 

 recurrent nervure. It is from Tasmania, and has a red abdomen, 

 after the fashion of the African Allodape rufogastra; which is 

 rather noteworthy, for the reason that the abdomens of the Austra- 

 lian species of Allodape are not red. 



CER4TIMA Latreille. 

 (1) Black species. 

 Ceratina compacta Sm., Philippine Islands, is close to C. hiero- 

 glyphica, but smaller. 



C. armata Sm., Cape of Good Hope, is pitch black and strongly 

 punctured ; clypeus with a creamy band ; sixth abd. s. with a deli- 

 cate longitudinal keel. 



(2) Species at least partly green or blue. 

 (a) Brilliant green ( Chrysis-like) Asiatic species. 



C. sexmaculata Sm., Hong Kong. Strongly punctured, with a 

 pair of curious black marks on each of abdominal segments 3-6 ; 

 sixth segment with a short spine at the apex, and the margins on 

 each side of it spinulose. The more strongly punctured form from 

 Celebes, referred to by Smith, may be called var. wallacei. 



(b) American species. 

 (i) Abdomen crimson. 



C. eximia Sm. Head and thorax bright green ; lateral face 

 marks small, pyriform, the point mesad. 



(ii) Abdomen not crimson. 



Color a wonderful mixture of black and a beautiful dark blue, turning purple 



on abdomen; face with three cream-colored spots (Panama). 



placida Sm. 



