Species of S[:)\ie^^'K\ie fj-om the K/tasia llills, 221 



Cerceris intimella, sp. n. 



Black; the clypeus (except at the apex), the inner orbits 

 hroadly to the top of the autennal keel, the keel, a spot 

 behind the top of tlie eyes, a line on the pronotum, the 

 scutellums, the apex of the first abdominal segment, the base 

 of the second more broadly, the apex of the third, and a 

 narrow more or less interrupted line on the fourth and fifth, 

 yellow. Wings hyaline, broadly fulvous smoky in front, the 

 costa and stigma fulvous, the nervures fuscous. Four an- 

 terior tibiJB testaceous in front. $ . 



Length almost 15 mm. 



Front and vertex closely distinctly punctured, more closely 

 and finely behind the ocelli ; clypeus sparsely punctured, the 

 apical incision large, semicircular; the pubescence on the 

 lower part of the inner orbits dense and silvery, on the rest 

 long, fuscous. Pronotum closely and minutely, the meso- 

 notum and scutellum closely distinctly, the postscutellum 

 closely minutely, punctured ; the scutellum with a slight 

 depression in the middle. Metanotal area closely strongly 

 punctured like the rest of the segment ; the pubescence on 

 it is black. Pro- and metapleurae alutaeeous, the former 

 with a few obscure stride, the latter irregularly striated at 

 the base; the mesopleune strongly punctured. Pygidium 

 closely irregularly reticulated^ becoming slightly narrowed 

 from the middle to the apex. 



Comes into Bingham^s section B. b. 



b. Metanotal area striated, 



Cerceris rufoplagiata , sp. n. 



Black ; the scape and pedicle of the antennai, tlie inner 

 eye-orbits from opposite the base of the antennae, the antennal 

 keel, a mark on the top of the clypeus, .and its outer edge 

 below, yellow ; the upper part of the prothorax, the apex of 

 the mesouotum in the middle and at the sides, the scutellums, 

 a mark on the propleurae, one behind the tubercles, the 

 tubercles, the first abdominal segment above, with a black 

 mark in the middle behind, the base of the second broadh', 

 its apex narrowly, the apical two thirds of the third, and 

 the apices of the following three segments narrowly, rufous. 

 Wings smoky hyaline, darker in front, the stigma fulvous. 

 Legs black, the anterior femora and tibiic red. ? . 



Length 7 ram. 



Front and vertex strongly, closely, and uniformly, the 

 face less closely punctured, almost smooth in the middle. 



