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segment longer than broad ; pygidial area coarsely punctured, large, a little 

 less than twice as long as broad, the sides parallel. Thorax and median 

 segment more closely and deeply pimctured than in the female ; the 

 enclosed area at the base of the median segment coarsely obliquely striat- 

 ed ; abdomen sparsely punctured. 



Habitat — Nasik, W. India. [Comber). September. 



I have not seen the type, but Cameron's description is quite sufficient. 



Cerccris binghami sp. n. 



Cevceris fero.r Bingh. Fauna Brit. India Hym. I, p, 310, 1897, $ . (nee 

 ferox Sm.). 



9 . Niger, clypeo, fronte, macula post oculos, pronoto utrinque, post- 

 scutello, segment© mediani macula apicali utrinque, segmentis abdominal- 

 ibus 2-5 fascia angusta apicali, tibiisque anticis et intermediis flavis ; 

 tarsis anticis et intermediis rufotestaceis ; alis fusco-hyalinis ; clypeo brevi, 

 late emarginato, lobis lateralibus tuberculatis ; mesopleuris hand tuberculatis, 

 segmento mediano area basali longitudinaliter striata, segmento ventrali 

 secundo area basali elevata nulla. 



Long. 14 mm. 



$ . Middle lobe of the clypeus twice as broad as long, flat, the apical 

 margin very widely emarginate, not recurved. Lateral lobes of the clypeus 

 with a small tubercle near the middle. Antennse 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 half as long again as the third. Head 

 broad, the posterior ocelli more than, half as far again from the eyes as 

 from each other. Mesopleuree without tubercles, second ventral segment 

 without an elevated basal area. First abdominal segment as broad as 

 long ; pygidial area large, less than twice as long as broad, truncate at the 

 apex, the sides nearly parallel. Head and thorax coarsely and closely 

 punctured, the mesonotum reticulate, the basal area of the median segment 

 longitudinally striated, without a dividing furrow ; abdomen finely and 

 sparsely punctured, the segments not much constricted. First recurrent 

 nervure received beyond the middle of the second cubital cell. 



Habitat — Ataran, Tenasserim [Bingham). February. 



This was treated by Bingham as a variety of C. ferox Sm., differing only 

 in colour. But in ferox the middle lobe of the clypeus is porrect, with the 

 lamina free at the apex and very broadly rounded ; the tubercles on the 

 lateral lobes are on the margin, not near the middle ; the first abdominal- 

 segment is much longer than broad, the pygidial area is narrower at the 

 base, gradually narrowed to the apical margin, which is less than half as 

 broad as the base. These distinctions are ample for a specific distinction. 

 Bingham's description oi ferox seems to be taken from the present species 

 and not from true fero.v. 

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