Records of Bees. 195 
Parevaspis carbonaria (Smith). 
Coimbatore District, Bailur Forests, Nov. 238-28; Chit- 
toor, April 19-27. 
Ceralina canarensis, sp. Ni. 
9 .—Length 10 mm. 
Black, with bright vellow markings on head and thorax 
as follows: very broad band down middle of clypeus, with 
a short truncate projection on each side at lower end ; low 
and broadly triangular supraclypeal mark; very broad 
bands along inner orbits, extending across to borders of 
clypeus and ‘supraclypeal area; two spots below ocelli; 
cheeks, except uppermost part adjacent to eye; border of 
prothorax, not reaching tubercles; tubercles; very broad 
vertical band on pleura; two lines on disc of mesothorax, 
and short broad lateral bands above tegule ; scutellum and 
axille, except extreme base ; line on postscutellum ; and 
metathorax except basal area. Eyes dark olive-green ; 
mandibles dark apically, otherwise pale yellow suffused 
with red; flegellum very obscure reddish beneath; meso- 
thorax polished and impunctate on disc, but anteriorly dull 
and finely punctured ; tegule rufo-testaceous with a small 
yellow spot. Wings dusky, stigma and nervures piceous. 
Legs obscure reddish, anterior knees and tibie yellow 
suffused with reddish. Abdomen with the first three seg- 
ments dark reddish, the others black, the apical margin 
of fourth and fifth narrowly testaceous ; first segment with 
a yellow discal patch, subquadrate with a posterior extension, 
on each side of this the surface is black, but the posterior 
margin is broadly rufous; second segment posteriorly with 
a broad, paler, somewhat yellowish band, interrupted in 
middle. 
South Canara District, Nagody, 2500 ft., Sept. 19, 1913. 
Related to C. hieroglyphica, Smith, but distinguished by 
the coloration of the abdomen and the very broad lateral 
yellow bands on face. 
Lithurgus australior, sp. n. 
¢ .—Length 12 mm. 
Similar to the male of ZL. atratus, Smith (Khasia Hills, 
Sladen), but differmg thus: face thickly covered with pure 
white hair, not mixed with black ; a tuft of white hair 
