MONOGRAPH 01 THE WASPS OF BlilTISR INDIA. 49,> 



mediano area basali punctata, in angulis obliqae striata ; segmento ventrali 

 seciindo area basali elevata nulla. 



Long. 8 mm. 



2 . Clypeus with a short, stout, porrect tubercle in the middle, the^ 

 tubercle notched at the apex ; the apical margin of the clypeus below the 

 tubercle armed with two sharp teeth on each side and a very minute 

 one in the middle. Antennte inserted low down, more than twice as far 

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

 of the flagellum very little longer than the third. Eyes parallel ; posterior 

 ocelli further from the eyes than from each other. Mesopleur^ without 

 tubercles ; first abdominal segment nearly twice as long as broad ; second 

 ventral segment without a raised area at the base; pygidial area fully twice 

 as long as broad, almost pointed at the base and rather narrowly truncate 

 at the apex. Closely but not deeply punctured, more coarsely on the 

 abdomen than on the thorax ; enclosed area at the base of the median 

 segment very finely and closely punctured, finely striated in the angles 

 and on the sides. First recurrent nervure recei/ed beyond one third from 

 the base of the second cubital cell. 



Habitat — Barrackpore {Rothney). 



This is near C. latibalteata Cam. from which it differs in the form of the- 

 lamina of the clypeus and in the greater length of the first abdominal seg- 

 ment. It is also more closely punctured. 



Cercei'is specifica sp. n. 



$ . Nigra ; clypeo, fronte, scapo, linea pone oculos, vertice linea trans- 

 versa, pronoto, raesonoto macula quadrata, tegulis, scutello, postscutello,. 

 mesopleuris maculis duabus, segmento mediano utrinque, segmentoque 

 secundo dorsali basi flavis ; flagello subtus, segmentis abdominalibus 1-3 

 apice late, 4-5 apice anguste, pedibusque partim fulva-ferrugineis ; alls 

 hyalinis, apice infumatis ; clypeo lamina ante apicem libera, porrecta, apice 

 leviter emarginata, margine apicali sub lamina obtuse tridentato ; meso- 

 pleuris baud tuberculatis ; segmento mediano area basali nitida ; segmento 

 ventrali secundo area basali elevata nulla. 



Long. 



$ . Clypeus with the lamina porrect from the middle, shallowly emargi- 

 nate at the apex ; the apical margin below the lamina with three blunt 

 teeth, rather narrow. Antennce inserted less than half as far again from 

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

 flagellum nearly half as long again as the third. Eyes parallel, the poste- 

 rior ocelli further from the eyes than from each other. First abdominal 

 segment longer than broad, Avidest in the middle ; second ventral segment 

 without a raised area at the base ; pygidial area elongate ovate, truncate 

 at the apex and a little wider than at the base, more than twice as long as 

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