312 SPIIEGID^. 



Mild postscutelium, a large oval spot on each side of the median seg- 

 ment, and transverse bauds on the posterior margins of abdominnl 

 segments 1-5 yellow, the bands on the 1st bordered posteriorly and 

 on the 2-5 anteriorly with ferruginous ; legs ferruginous ; wings 

 hyaline, shaded with fuscous, especially on their apical half ; 

 nervures testaceous, teguhe yellow. 



Hah. Northern India (Smith) ; Madras. ? . Length 11-13 ; 

 exp. 23-24 mm. J • Length 10-11 ; e.x-j). 22-23 mm. 



*559. Cerceris bifasciata, rriier. Icnnoq. Rhjn. Am'm. p. 443, pi. 71, fig. 9 ; 

 Scl/lctt. ZooL Jahrb. 1887, p. 487 : Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. iSue. 

 (4) iii, 1890, p. 248. 



5 (?). " Entirely fulvous, punctured, the front of the head 

 below the insertion of the antenna?, the scape of the latter, the 

 base of the mandibles, the 3rd and 5th abdominal segments yellow. 

 "Wings with a yellow tint, a small brown spot at apex. Length 

 5 mm." 



Hab. Bengal. I have failed to identify this species in any 

 collection I have examined. 



530. Cerceris elizabethae, n. sp. (PI. II, fig. 8.) 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen coarsely cribrately punctured, 

 the punctures shallow on the front and clypeus ; clypeus with the 

 lamina porrect, its anterior margin transverse ; median segment 

 with the enclosed space at base broadly triangular and obliquely 

 striate, the medial furrow indistinct, the mesosternum beneatli 

 with two well-marked tubercular short spines ; the basal segment 

 of the abdomen slender, subcylindrical, and constricted at its 

 apical margin. Black ; the base of the mandibles and an abbre- 

 viated line along the inner orbits yellow ; basal abdominal sesment 

 entirely and basal half of 2ud segment red ; antenuaj, the tibipe and 

 tarsi of the legs, and the extreme apex of the abdomen rufo- 

 testaceous ; wings hyaline, fuscescent along the costal margin and 

 at apex of the fore wing ; nervures testaceous, tegulte black. 



Uab. Thaungyin Valley, Tenasserim, extending into Siam. 

 5 . Length 11 ; exj). 20 mm. c? unknown. Type in coll. 

 British Museum. 



561. Cerceris pentadonta, Catn. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iii, 

 1890, pp. 250 & 202, pi. x, fig. 13. 



$ . Clypeus and the front of the face, the pronotum and 

 scutellum smooth with a few scattered punctures, the head above, 

 mesonotum, median segment, and abdomen rather closely punc- 

 tured ; clypeus subporrect, the apex slightly produced and incised, 

 and bearing hve teeth ; median segment witla the enclosed space 

 at its base small, very rinely obliquely striate, and obsciu-ely 

 channellcKl down the middle, the channel continued as a broad 

 furrow beyond the apex of the enclosed space to the apex of the 



