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domen shining, closely and finely punctured ; the third segment 

 with a narrow lateral yellow line, which is slightly curved ; 

 the three following segments yellow, with their anneal margins 

 black. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba. 



19. Anthidium deceptum. 



Male. Length 5| lines. — Black ;- head, thorax, and legs variegated 

 with yellow ; abdomen with four rows of ovate yellow spots. 

 The clypeus and sides of the face as high as the antennte, the 

 mandibles, and a spot above the eyes yellow ; the face with white 

 pubescence. Thorax with pale fulvous pubescence above, and 

 with white beneath and on the legs ; an oblong spot on each 

 side of the margin of the mcsothorax anteriorly, another over the 

 tegulaj, the posterior margin of the scuteUum and an ovate spot at 

 its lateral angles, and the tegulae in front and behind, yellow ; the 

 tibiie outside and the tarsi yellow ; the tips of the claws black ; 

 wings subhyaliue. The segments of the abdomen with a large sub- 

 ovate macula at their lateral margins, and each with two smaller 

 spots, the four spots on each segment being placed equidistant ; the 

 apical segment immaculate and trispinose ; the central spine 

 shortest, and being a continuation of a central carina. 



Hah. Peru. 



CEEATINA, Latr. 



1. Ceratina compacta. 



Female. Length 3 lines. — Black ; head and thorax closely punc- 

 tured ; abdomen finely so, variegated with yellow. The labrum, 

 clypeus, and the face on each side of it, a narrow line up the inner 

 orbits of the eyes not as high as their summit, two oblique lines 

 above the insertion of the antennae, a transverse line above the 

 clypeus, the scape in front, and a line behind the eyes, yellow. 

 Thorax with the tubercles, an interrupted line on the collar, a line 

 close to the tegulse, two short ones on the disk, and the scutellum 

 yellow ; the anterior legs and the intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 and tarsi yellow ; wings hyaline, the tegulse rufo-testaceous. The 

 apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with yellow fasciae, 

 the second and third fasciae widely interrupted ; the fasciae widen 

 abruptly laterally, the third and fourth are widened both in the 

 middle and at the sides ; the sixth segment with a hat-shaped 

 yellow macula. 



Hah. Philippine Islands. 



