Records of Bees, 249 
with upper part evanescent ; scape with a large yellow spot 
at base and a smaller one at apex; yellow of upper border 
of prothorax continuous with that on tubercles; no spot 
behind tubercles ; mesothorax with four rather short stripes ; 
yellow area on scutellum very large, quadrate, about twice 
as broad as long ; about half of anterior femora, and all of 
their tibize and tarsi yellow ; middle and hind knees, and 
tibiz on outer side, yellow ; middle tarsi pallid, but hind. 
basitarst blackened; first abdominal segment with a band 
enclosing two black spots; second segment with entire band, 
having median angle, aud greatly enlarged at sides; third 
with slightly interrupted band ; fourth and fifth with bands 
and sixth with a large yellow patch. Clypeus with three 
faintly indicated keels ; lateral areas of mesothorax with 
posterior half impunctate ; area of metathorax with little 
sculpture; anterior cox prominently angulate;. apex of 
abdomen with a median denticle. Tegule rufous; wings 
dusky. 
Singapore (Baker, 9281). 
Allied to C. acuticauda, Ckll., from Java, but that has the 
scape black and the apical plate of abdomen subangulate 
laterally. Also allied to C. philippinensis, Ashm., which it 
resembles in the ornamentation of the scape, but differing 
in the sculpture of lateral areas of mesothorax. 
Ceratina accusator, sp. 1. 
9. (Type.)-—Length about 6°3 mm. 
Black, with the tarsi ferruginous, and bright yellow 
markings as follows: reversed T on clypeus (with stem 
shorter than arms), supraclypeal band, frontal spots, rather 
narrow claviform lateral face-marks (the lower end turned 
inward, the upper going to level of antennz), rather long 
stripe on cheeks, upper border of prothorax, tubercles, spot 
behind tubercles, four stripes on mesothorax (the lateral ones 
very short), semicircular patch on scutellum, anterior femora 
apically, middle knees, anterior and middle tibize on outer 
side, spot at extreme base of hind tibiz, double median spot 
on first abdominal segment and indistinct lateral ones, sides 
of second and third segments with large marks resembling 
a hand with index-finger pointed, and bands on fourth and 
fifth segments, narrowed sublaterally. Scape slender, red- 
dened in front, especially toward base; lateral areas of 
mesothorax with posterior half impunctate; base of meta- 
thorax finely rugose ; tegule ferruginous. Wings brownish ; 
hind tibize with a small projection on outer side ; hind tibize 
