102 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



really related species, with darker wings and stout axillar 

 spines, is C.philipptnsis, Bingham, from the Philippine Is. 



Ccelioxys ramakrishna, sp. n. 

 S • — Length slightly over 10 mm. 



Black, including legs and tegulae ; eyes greenish, with 

 abundant short hair ; face and clypeus flat, covered with 

 white hair ; cheeks with a broad depressed sharply defined 

 band, filled with snow-white hair ; vertex with large 

 punctures • antennas black ; mesothorax and scutellum with 

 very large punctures, not covering the whole surface ; no 

 hair-spots on mesothorax ; scutellum broadly rounded pos- 

 teriorly ; axillar spines large ; pleura not densely hairy, but 

 a white line runs down from the tubercles ; tegulse black. 

 Wings dilute fuliginous, hyaline basally ; second sub- 

 marginal cell receiving recurrent nervures almost equally 

 far from base and apex; anterior coxa? spined. Abdomen 

 polished, strongly but sparsely punctured, hind margins of 

 segments with linear white hair-bands, broadening laterally ; 

 sides of first segment with only a rather thin and narrow 

 longitudinal band ; fifth segment with a small spine on each 

 side ; sixth (terminal) segment with long and slender lateral 

 spines at base, and four apical ones, the lowermost long and 

 slender. The fourth ventral segment is entire. Hind spurs 

 dark reddish. 



Coimbatore, India, February (T. V. R.). 



Buns in Bingham's table to C. confusa, Smith, but appear* 

 to differ by the longer axillar spines, more strongly 

 punctured abdomen, and the very small (scarcely noticeable), 

 white hair-marks at base of scutellum. Smith described the 

 female, and Bingham only gives two lines of description 

 for male confusa, so exact comparisons cannot be made. 

 Meade-Waldo, on comparing types, found that Cameron's 

 C. tenuiliiieata from Simla was confusa. This differs from 

 our insect by the dense hair on base and apex of mesopleura, 

 and the emarginate scutellum. No doubt the two insects 

 are allied, but I believe them to be distinct. 



Nomioides patruelis, sp. n. 

 ? • — Length about 4 mm. 



Head circular seen from in front, dark bluish green ; 

 clypeus, a small round supraclypeal mark, labrum, mandibles 

 (except the ferruginous apical part), and the long scape in 

 front, all pale yellow ; flagellum pale yellowish ferruginous 

 beneath, reddish brown above ; mesothorax bright green, 

 shining ; pleura dark green ; metathorax black, the base 

 finely rugose ; upper border of prothorax, tubercles, line 



