CBEATINA. ALLODAPE. 505 



Hah. Ceylou ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 5 . Length 5-7 ; exp. 

 9-14 mm. 



893. Ceratina lepida, Smith, New Sp. Hym. B. M. p. 92, d ; Dull. 



Ton: Cat. x, p. 199. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen shining, punctured, the punc- 

 tures larger and more sparse on the face in front and the mesonotum, 

 densest on the abdomen ; median segment with a large lunafe 

 concave space at base, widely reticulate. Black ; a transverse tri- 

 lobed spot on the clypeus, a wide subtriangular spot above it, a 

 narrow line along the inner orbits not reaching far above the base 

 of the antennae, and with the apex below curved inwards, two 

 oblique spots below the anterior ocellus, a broad line on the cheeks, 

 a narrow one on the pronotum, the tubei'cles, a minute line inside 

 the tegulse, the base of the scutellum, the anterior femora at 

 apex beneath, a line on the anterior tibia) above, and narrow 

 transverse fasciae on the apical margin of abdominal segments 2-5, 

 yellow ; the fascia on the 2nd and 3rd segments very ^\■idely, and 

 on the 4th narrowly interrupted in the middle, on the 5th seguient 

 the fascia is entire and broader than the others ; tarsi rufo- 

 testaceous ; wings hyaline and iridescent. 



(S similar ; the apical segment produced in the middle into a 

 tooth, and the sides angulate ; intermediate and posterior legs 

 also variegated with yellow. 



Hab. Northern India (Smith) ; Dibrugarh, Assam. $ . Length 

 10 ; exp. 18 mm. d • Length 8 ; exp. 16 mm. 



894. Ceratina simillima. Smith, Cat. ii, p. 225; Ball. Ton-. Cat. x, 



p. 200. 



$ . Resembles C. lepida, but is constantly smaller, the head 

 and thorax with much fewer punctures, the lunate space at base 

 of the median segment very finely minutely punctured, opaque- 

 looking ; basal segment of abdomen smooth and polished, rest of 

 the segments very finely and densely punctured. The yeUow 

 marldngs are nearly as in G. lepida, but there are in addition two 

 short parallel longitudinal yellow lines on the disc of the meso- 

 notum, and a yellow line (sometimes reduced to two spots) on the 

 apical margin of the basal segment of the abdomen ; legs testaceous, 

 variegated with yellowish white ; wings hyaline and iridescent. 



Hab. East Indies (Smith) ; Burma ; Tenasserim. § . Length 6 ; 

 exp. 11 mm, cS unknown. 



Genus ALLODAPE. 

 Allodape, Lepel. JEncyd. Meth., Lis. x, p. 18 (1825). 



Type, A. rufogastra, Lepel. 



Range. Africa ; the Oriental region ; Australia. 



