DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA. 1009 



from the eyes than they are in the $ ; and the ocelli in the latter are closer 

 to the eyes than they are in the $ . On the apes of the 1st abdominal seg- 

 ment there may be a continuous line (yellow or black) or 2 spots ; on the 2nd 

 ventral segment the red may be continuous, transverse at the apex, or the 

 latter may be trilobate ; and there may be central or lateral yellow spots. 

 The apex of the clypeus in the $ is more transverse than it is in the $ ; in 

 the latter the abdominal petiole is longer than it is in the $? , being almost as 

 long as the head and thorax united. The affinities of the species appear 

 to be with the African E. caffra, E. leprtleterii and E. asina, and doubtless 

 affords another example of an African element in the Fauna of Western 

 India, of which we have others in Meria and Apterogyna. 



Sphegigme. 

 Trypoxylon testaceicorne, sp. nov. 



Black, the antennae testaceous beneath, the 4 front knees, the greater part 

 of the 4 front tibia? and tarsi and the basal third of the hinder tibiae pallid- 

 testaceous, almost white ;«the wings clear hyaline, the nervures and stigma 

 black. Metanotum to the spiracular keel closely, irregularly striated, the base 

 irregularly reticulated; the central furrow commences at the apex of this 

 reticulated part, is moderately broad and shallow ; the two lateral keels 

 are distinct ; the top half of the apical slope is depressed, with the sides 

 oblique and deeply furrowed in the centre. The petiole stout, dilated at the 

 apex, about one-third longer than the 2nd — distinctly shorter than the 2nd 

 and 3rd segments united ; the base of the 3rd is pale testaceous. $ 



Length 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Deesa (Nurse) 



The 3rd joint of the antennae is not much longer than the 4th. Face and 

 clypeus thickly covered with silvery pubescence. Mandibles rufo-testaceous. 

 Front alutaceous, furrowed in the centre above, finely keeled below. Hinder 

 ocelli separated from each other by double the distance they are from the 

 eyes. Tubercles and tegulse testaceous. Propleuras obliquely depressed at the 

 apex ; the upper part of the meta- finely striated. The outer furrow on the 

 metanotum is narrow, distinct and obscurely striated. 

 Cerceris lanata, sp. nov. 



Black, the abdomen orange-red ; the inner eye orbits from shortly below 

 the ocelli, the ocelli except on the sides above, a line extending from the 

 ocelli to the clypeus, its lower part dilated, a mark on the base of the mandi- 

 bles, a line on the outer orbits shortly below the top of the eyes, its inner 

 side thicker than the outer and 2 large irregular marks on the apex of the 

 petiole, pale yellow. Legs black ; the outer side of the 4 front tibise, the base 

 of their tarsi and the greater part of the hinder tibise, on the outer side to near 

 the apex and behind to the middle, pale yellow ; the hinder femora, tibise and 

 tarsi have a brownish tint. Wings smoky, with hyaline patches, the 

 nervures and stigma blackish. $ 



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