CERATINA. 501 



884. Ceratina viridissima. 



Ceratiua viriJis, iiner. {iiec Latr.) Icon. Rerjn. Ani7n., Itis. p. 449, 



pi. 73, fig-. G ; Smith, Cat. ii, p. 224. 

 Ceratina viridissima, Dull. Ton: Cut. x, p. 201. 



2 6 ' Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and closely punctured, 

 granular ; clypeus elongate triangular, margined all round, and 

 with a medial longitudinal carina ; mesonotum convex, with two 

 medial parallel impressed lines, and an abbreviated impressed line 

 on each side of and parallel to them ; abdomen with segments 

 1-5 marked with a short obscure impressed line on each side 

 above, just before the apical margin. Bright green, sometimes 

 blue, metallic and shining ; clypeus and a line on all the tibiae 

 above yellow ; mandibles, labrum, antennae, legs, and the im- 

 pressed lines on the thorax and abdomen black, the legs sometimes 

 with a greenish or bluish tint and covered with hoary white 

 pubescence ; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures and tegulae 

 testaceous brown. 



Hab. Apparently throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon ; Assam; 

 China; Malacca. The specimens from the Punjab and Western 

 India have a golden-bronzy tint ; those from Ceylon and Burma 

 are darker. $ S . Length 8-10; exp. 16-17 mm. 



885. Ceratina propinqua, C'a??i. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli, 1897. 



2 . Head coarsely punctured ; the front above the clypeus and 

 round the base of the antennae hollow ; the carina thus formed 

 between the lateral hollows forked below the anterior ocellus, the 

 lateral branches running to the posterior ocelli ; mesonotum, 

 scutellum, postscutellum, and. median segment minutely and 

 closely punctured ; median segment very short, with a very steep 

 slope posteriorly, the enclosed rugose space at base very small ; 

 abdomen closely punctured, the basal two segments minutely 

 punctate, the remainder A\ith gradually coarser punctures towards 

 the apex, the apical three segments thinly pubescent. Dark 

 bluish green; an elongate pyramidal spot on the clypeus, the 

 tubercles, and a stripe on the tibi;t) above yellowish white ; antennae, 

 mandibles, and legs piceous ; tarsi testaceous ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Hab. Mussooree, Northern India. § . Lenrjth 4-5; exjp. 8 mm. 



886. Ceratina sexmaculata. Smith, New Sp. 

 Hyvi. B. M. p. 92, c^" ; Dull. Torr. Cat. x, 

 p. 200. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen closely 

 punctured, with a granular appearance; cly- 

 peus impunctate, faintly vertically carinate ; 



_. ,„„ ,, ,. median segment very short, not more than 

 Fig. 168. — Ceratina ,^ ■ i ^i .• n j. ^ i. 



sexmacrdata, $. ?-. - i^^- i^ length, vertically truncate poste- 

 riorly, the edge of the truncation above mar- 

 gined. Bright emerald-green, the clypeus yellow ; the antennae 

 and legs chestnut-brown, the last variegated with yellow ; abdominal 



