52-4 Major C. G. Nurse on new 



a few minute punctures : thorax minutely, closely, and 

 shallowly punctured, appearing very finely rugose; abdomen 

 finely aciculate ; clypeus very convex, almost triangular, its 

 anterior margin very slightly emarginate ; front above the 

 clypeus very concave, a sliglit carina between the bases of 

 antennae ; apical abdominal segment shining, sparsely 

 punctured. Pale orange-red, abdomen above reddish yellow ; 

 the apex of the mandibles, the greater part of the central 

 portion of the front from the base of antennae to the vertex, 

 the veitex narrowly, the posterior portion of the head, except 

 a narrow line along the outer orbits of the eyes, the mesonotum, 

 except its sides and two short and faint longitudinal lines on 

 its disk, the base of the scutellum broadly, the postscutellum, 

 the median segment, except a crescent-shaped mark, inter- 

 rupted in the centre, and the extreme lateral angles of the 

 segment, the coxae of all the legs, the apical abdominal seg- 

 ment above, and the greater part of the first, third, and 

 following segments below, black ; the margins of the abdo- 

 minal segments are darker red than the rest of the segments, 

 and there are faint indications of red maculae on tlie lighter 

 porticn ; the flagellum of the antennae is rufous ; clypeus and 

 front covered with silvery, and the thorax with sparse greyish 

 pubescence ; wings subf uscous, becoming gradually lighter 

 towards their apical margins, which are hyaline. 



(J . Similar ; the apical joints of antennae spined ; a very 

 large and prominent median tubercle on the second ventral 

 segment; two conspicuous carinae meeting apically and 

 forming a wedge-shaped prominence on the sixth ventral 

 segment; labrum^ clypeus, and scape of antennae pale yellow, 

 flagellum of antennae dark rufo-testaceous ; many of the 

 orange-red markings on the thorax obsolete or obsolescent. 



Long. 16-17 millim. 



Hah. Deesa ; rare. 



This species would come into Bingham's key in a new 

 section : " B. c. Colours black and light red ; abdomen 

 reddish vellow." 



Cerceris kashmi'rensis, sp. n. 



? c? • Head, pronotum, mesonotum, and scutellum closely 

 and somewhat finely punctured, the punctures running into 

 striae ; postscutellum impunctate, the enclosed space at the 

 base of median segment varies considerably, in most speci- 

 mens it has outwardly divergent striae, in some it is almost 

 entirely smooth ; sides of the median segment coarsely rugosely 



