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the greatest breadth. Closely and rather finely punctured ; the enclosed 

 area at the base of the median segment smooth and shining, with a shallow 

 median groove. First recurrent nervure received just before one-third 

 from the base of the second cubital cell. 



Habitat — Kandy, Ceylon {Wicliiuar). June. 



This is quite distinct from Ivumhertiana, Sauss., the lamina of the clypeus 

 being free from the middle only, and not from the base ; and the first 

 abdominal segment being slender. 



A male closely resembling C. lej)c]ia Cam. sent by Mr. Wickwar from 

 Haputale, Ceylon, jDrobably belongs to this species. 



Cerceris latihalteata Cam. 



Cerceris latihalteata Cam. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) XIII., p. 292 

 1904, $. 



? Cercexis lepcha Cam. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) XV, p. 222, 1905, S . 



5 . Nigra ; mandibulis, carina frontali, margine interiore oculorum, 

 pronoto, scutello, postscutello, segmento dorsali tertio, segmento, qviinto 

 apice, tarsisque anterioribus fulvo-ferrugineis ; alls fusco-hyalinis, apice 

 obscurioribus ; clypeo convexo, lamina ante apicem libera, truncata, mar- 

 gine apicali sub lamina utrinque bidentato ; mesopleuris hand dentatis ; 

 segmento mediano area basali subnitida, in angulis striata ; segmento 

 ventrali secundo area basali elevata nulla. 



Long. 8 mm. 



$. Clypeus convex, the lamina free from a little below the middle and 

 porrect, truncate at the apex, the apical margin of the clypeus below the 

 lamina armed with two well defined teeth on each side. Antennte inserted 

 twice as far from the anterior ocellus as from the base of the clypeus, the 

 second joint of the flagellum about one-quarter longer than the third. Eyes 

 parallel ; the posterior ocelli half as far again from the eyes as fr6m each • 

 other. Pronotum not depressed in the middle, rounded at the angles,, 

 niesopleurse without tubercles ; first abdominal segment broadest in the 

 middle, as long as the greatest breadth ; second ventral segment without a 

 raised area at the base ; pygidial area elongate ovate, as broad at the apex 

 as at the base, about two and a half times as long as the greatest breadth, 

 narrowly truncate at the apex. Finely punctured, more coarsely on the 

 abdomen than elsewhere ; the median segment slightly shining and rather 

 sparsely punctured, the enclosed area at the base minutely punctured, 

 finely striated in the angles, with a shallow median groove. First recur- 

 rent nervure received beyond one-third from the apex of the second cubital 

 cell. 



Hahitat~lU\?i&i Hills (Coll. Rothney). 



This species is very near pentadonta Cam. but dift'ers as noticed under 

 that species. 



