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? .—Length about 8 mm. 
Labrum wholly black ; yellow clypeal band very broad, 
without lateral extensions ; yellow marks on legs reduced 
to a small spot at base of anterior tibia. The tubercles are 
not yellow in either sex. The ? has the second s.m. much 
broader above. 
Ty pe (¢) from Island of Penang (Baker) ; ? from Singa- 
pore (Baker, 9288). 
By the brouzy colour it resembles C. corinna, Nurse, but 
that has yellow clypeus and tubercles. 
Ceratina ridleyi, Cockerell. 
Islaud of Penang, a typical male (Baker, 9284). 
Ceratina wanthura, sp. 0. 
g .—-Length 8 mm. 
Similar to C. ridleyi, but differing thus: smaller; no 
black bands at sides of clypeus ; supraclypeal area yellow 
with black cerners ; sides of prothorax pale yellow ; meta- 
thorax all yellow except a broadly triangular basal area; 
first abdominal segment yellow with two black marks ; 
two very broad pale yellow bands occupying bases of second 
and third segments and narrower apices of tlie ones before ; 
apex weakly tridentate as in C. ridleyi, but broader and 
reddish yellow instead of black. The last character also 
distinguishes it from C. kosemponis, Straud, which is closely 
allied, and agrees in the yellow face. The yellow mark 
above the eyes is large and fusiform, not minute as in 
C. flavopicta, Sm. The mesotlorax has four yellow stripes ; 
- the scutellum, axillze, and postscutellum are yellow. 
Islaud of Penang (Baker, 9285). 
The following table separates a series of species related to 
Ceratina hieroglyphica, Smith, but apparently distinct from 
it and from each other. ‘There is a good deal of confusion 
concerning hieroglyphica; thus a specimen received as such 
from Mr. Sladen, collected in the Khasia Hills, India, 
proves to be really C. lepida, Smith. ‘Lhis is the specimen 
referred to in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec. 1899, p. 406. 
Smith himself evidently confused more than one species 
under hieroglyphica, since he gives the distribution as 
Northern Iudia, Hong Kong, and the Philippine Islands. 
In the table below, C. hieroglyphica falls with incerta, 
and the latter may prove to be no more than a subspecies, 
but there is a marked difference in the colour of the legs :— 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. iti. iy! 
