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Cerceris nelmlosa Cam. 

 Cerceris nebvlosa Cam. Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc. (4) III, p. 26o,. 

 1890, 9. 



Cercefis enjtliropoda Cam. Ann. «S: Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) X, p. 57, 



1902, 9- 



Cercerh liimalaijends Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) XV, p, 220, 



1905, 6 



Ccrcerh intimella Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) XV, p. 221, 



1905, 9. 



Cerceris assamensis Cam. Entomologist, p. 269, 1905, S • 



5 . Nigra ; clypeo, fronte, macula pone oculos, pronoto, segmento 

 abdominali primo apice, secimdo basi, tertioque apice ferrngineis ; alis 

 fusco-hyalinis, stigmate testaceo ; clypeo lato, apice semicirculariter emar- 

 ginato ; segmento mediano area basali tenuissime pxmctata ; mesopleuris 

 subtuberculatis ; segmento ventrali secundo area basali elevata nulla. 



S . Feminpe similis ; clyxDBO convexo. apice producto et leviter inciso. 



Long. 5 , 15 mm. ; (5 , 10 mm. 



5 . Clypeus. broad and flat, bent slightly outwards near the apex and 

 very widely and deeply emarginate. Antenna inserted low down on the 

 front, separated from the base of the clypeus by a distance not exceeding 

 the length of the third joint of the flagellum ; the second joint of 

 the flagellum as long as the first and third combined. Eyes diverg- 

 ing towards the clypeus ; posterior ocelli half as far again from 

 the eyes as from each other. Pronotum not depressed in the 

 middle ; mesopleuri^ wnth two feeble tubercles ; first abdominal 

 segment broader than long, strongly constricted at the apex ; second 

 ventral segment without a raised area at the base ; fifth ventral segment 

 with a narrow longitudinal groove in the middle ; pygidial area elongate 

 ovate, twice as long as the greatest breadth, very narrowly truncate at 

 the apex, granulate. Finely and closely punctured, more strongly and 

 sparsely on the abdomen ; the median segment rugulose on the apical 

 slope, the enclosed area at the base finely and closely punctured ; meso- 

 pleurjs striated. First recurrent nervure received just before the middle 

 of the second cubital cell. 



S . Clypeus convex, longer than broad, slightly incised on the middle 

 of the apical margin. Pygidial area a little longer than the breadth at 

 the base, twice as long as the breadth at the apex. Penultimate joint of 

 the flagellum longer than the apical. 



Habitat— Kh.a,si Hills, 6,000 ft. June to August. 



A fairly common species above Shillong. The extent of the ferru- 

 ginous colour is very variable. The list of synonyms at the head of 

 this description is an example of the careless descriptions in Cameron's 

 later papers. A female of this species is also labelled in Ptothney's 



