MONOGRAPH OF THE WASPS OF BRITISH INDIA. 493 



segmento mediano area basali nitida ; segmento ventrali secundo area 

 basali elevata nulla ; area pygidiali apice late truncata. 



o . FeminiB similis ; segmentis abdominalibus fasciis latis fiavis ; 

 clypeo convexo, apice late rotundato. 



5 . Very nearly allied to C. humbertiana Sauss. ; but the lamina of the 

 clypeus is short, as long as the breadth at the apex, slightly broader 

 at the base than at the apex ; the apical margin of the clypeus is 

 distinctly bisinuate but not tridentate as in humbertiana ; the first abdo- 

 minal segment is a little narrower, being rather less than twice as broad as 

 long ; the pygidial area is a little less widened to the apex, which is trun- 

 cate ; and the punctures are somewhat finer and shallower. 



The clypeus of the male is without teeth at the apex. 



Habitat — Bombay (Coll. Rothney) ; N. India (British Museum). 



The label has been accidentally shifted, or placed on the wrong specimen 

 originally, in the Rothney collection, which has misled Bingham. The 

 true sulphurea Cam., is a male and is marked fiavoficta in the Rothney col- 

 lection. This may possibly be the specimen referred to by Bingham as 

 sulphurea J , but it is so totally distinct from the female described by him 

 that I can hardly think he would have placed them together. The 

 specimen of Jlavo-picta in the Rothney collection is from Bombay, and is 

 more finely and sparsely punctured than the tyjjical form from N. W. India. 



Cerceris agnata sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; thorace dense, abdomine sparse punctato ; segmento 

 mediano area basali nitida ; clypeo, fronte, macula post oculos, vertice 

 fascia transversa interrupta, pronoto, tegulis, mesopleuris macula, scutello, 

 postscutello, segmento mediano macula magna utrinque, segmento dorsali 

 secando basi, tertio macula basali nigra, quarto quintoque fascia apicali, 

 segmentis ventralibus 2-5 flavis ; antennis pedibusque, posterioribus nigro- 

 variegatis, testaceis ; ano rufo ; clypeo lamina libera, mesopleuris haud 

 tuberculatis, segmento ventrali secundo area basali elevata nulla ; alis 

 hyalinis, apice infumatis. 



Long. 9 mm. 



5 . Clypeus with a free lamina, which is half as broad again as long 

 and truncate at the apex. Antennse inserted more than half as far again 

 from the anterior ocellus as from the base of the clypeus, the second 

 joint of the flagellum half as long again as the third. Posterior ocelli a 

 little further from the eyes than from each other ; the eyes diverging 

 slightly towards the clypeus. Mesopleuree without tubercles : first 

 abdominal segments longer than broad ; second ventral segment without 

 a raised area at the base ; pygidial area narrowly rounded at the apex 

 twice as wide at the base as at the apex, gradually narrowed, twice as 

 long as the greatest breadth. Head and thorax closely but not coarsely 



