CERATINA. 503 



steeply sloped, rounded posteriorly, with a medially impressed longi- 

 tudinal line ; the bases of the '2nd and 3rd abdominal segments deeply 

 constricted, their apical margins depressed. 

 Black ; a broad JL-shaped mark on the clypeus, 

 a squarish spot on each side o£ it, a spot on the 

 labrum, a line on the cheeks, a transverse fascia 

 on the apical margin of the 4th abdominal 

 segment, broadening slightly in the middle, and 

 another on the 5th, broadening considerably 

 in the middle, yellow ; the legs black with sparse 

 black hairs, the underside of the tarsi with dense 

 Yig.l69.—Ceratma goWen pubescence ; the wings fuseo-hyaliue. 

 perforatrix, § . -?. cJ . Differs in the yellow markings on the face 



being broader; the 4th and 5th abdominal 

 segments have a yellow fascia on the apical margins, those on the 

 4tli being interrupted in the middle, the 6th with a medial 

 yellow spot ; the legs rufo-piceous, not black. 



Hah. Assam; Pegu Hills ; Tenasserim. $. Length 12; exp. 

 22 mm. S . Length 10 ; exj^. 20 mm. 



890. Ceratina Meroglyphica. (PI. IV, fig. 3.) 



Smith, Cat. ii, p. 220, $ r? ; Dall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 199. 

 ? Ceratiua flavopicta, Morawitz (iiec Smith), Ilor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 



xxiv (1890), p. 356. 

 ? Ceratina morawitzii,^ Stadebn. Zoolorj. Jahrb., St/st. viii (1894) 

 p. 233, 



5 . Head above and the hollow on the front below the ocelli 

 somewhat coarsely, the thorax and abdomen more finely punctured, 

 the punctures on the abdomen emitting short decumbent hairs ; 

 the clypeus, disc of the mesonotum, and basal abdominal segment 

 smooth and shining, the clypeus having a few scattered fine punc- 

 tures ; median segment narrowed at apex and rounded posteriorly. 

 Black ; a i.-shaped mark on the clypeus, a lunate spot above it, a 

 stripe on each side broadened below, a spot above each antenna, 

 a broad stripe on each cheek, another on the pronotum, two 

 parallel longitudinal lines on the mesonotum, another short one on 

 each side over the tegulao, a broad squarish mark on the middle of 

 the scutellum, the tubercles, the legs except the coxte, trochanters, 

 and femora above, and transverse subapical fascia) on the segments 

 of the abdomen, yellow ; the fascia on the 1st abdominal segment 

 broadened in the middle and roundly incised anteriorly on each 

 side, that on the 2nd broad, laterally attenuated on each side of 

 the middle, the fascia on the 3rd segment broadly interrupted in 

 the middle and widest laterally, on the 4th broadest in the middle 

 where it is narrowly interrupted, the 5th segment with a broad 

 truncate cone-shaped spot in the middle, the 6th segment black ; 

 legs slightly pubescent; wings hyaline, more or less fuscescent; 

 nervures and tegular testaceous. 



