502 XVIDJE. 



segments 4-6 with a square velvety black spot on each side of 

 the middle above, the spots decreasing in size posteriorly ; wings 

 hyaline with a faint yellow tint, nervures and teguke testaceous. 



d similar ; the apical margin of the 6th segment crenulate 

 and subdentate in the middle, the 7th with a longer acute tooth 

 medially. 



Hab. Hong Kong ; Upper Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to 

 Celebes. $ c? • LengtJi 7-8; exp. ]2 mm. 



887. Ceratina taprobanse, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli, 1897. 



2 . Head and thorax very minutely and closely puuctux'ed ; 

 median segment on the sides and at apex very finely striolate, the 

 enclosed space at base rugose ; the scutellum and postscutellum 

 fringed with, long hairs ; the head and abdomen thinly pubescent. 

 Green and shining; the clypeus, labrum, and palpi yellow ; the 

 clypeus with two black lines ; the scape of the antennse above and 

 below, the flagellum beneath, a line on the pronotum, and the 

 tubercles yellow; the legs Aariegated and the abdomen banded 

 with yellow ; scutellum dark purple ; wings hyaline, nervures 

 and tegulse pale testaceous. 



Bah. Ceylon. $. Length 3-4; exp. about 6 mm. Type in 

 coll. Rothney. 



888. Ceratina picta, Smith, Cat. ii, p. 224, 5 ; Datt. Torr. Cat. x, 



p. 199. 



5 . Head with a few scattered punctures ; mesonotum anteriorly 

 and posteriorly closely and finely punctured, smooth, polished, and 

 shining in the middle; abdomen finely punctured, the punctures 

 more dense on the apical three segments, the margins of segments 

 2-5 narrowly depi'essed; clypeus flat, transverse anteriorly; median 

 segment rounded and steep posteriorly, the space at base above 

 flat or slightly depressed, with a medial somewhat obscure longi- 

 tudinal carina, which runs to the apex of the segment. Head, 

 thorax, and legs jet-black, shining ; the labrum and base of the 

 mandibles, a line along the apical margin of the clypeus, two very 

 short vertical lines running up from it medially, a line along the 

 inner orbits broadening below, a broader line along the outer 

 orbits, two oblique spots below the anterior ocellus, a transverse 

 line on the pronotum, two medial longitudinal parallel lines on 

 the disc of the mesonotum, and two sublunate contiguous spots on 

 the scutellum yellow ; the legs black, the tibia? above and the tarsi 

 obscurely rufo-testaceous ; abdomen entirely ferruginous ; wings 

 fusco-hyaline and iridescent. 



Hah. Ceylon (Smith). $ . Length 7 ; exp. 14 mm. 



889. Ceratina perforatrix. Smith, Neto Sp. Hym,. B. M. p. 92, c? . 



§ . Head and face and mesonotum anteriorly sparingly punc- 

 tured ; abdomen somewhat more closely and very finely punctured ; 

 head, thorax, and abdomen polished and shining ; median segment 



