MONOGRAPH OF THE WASPS OF BRITISH INDIA. 509 



Long. 2; 12 mm. ; c? , 10 mm. 



5 . Clypeus flattened, the middle lobe half as broad again at the apex 

 as long ; the apical margin straight, armed with four minute blunt teeth. 

 Antennae inserted almost as far from the base of the clypeus as from the 

 anterior ocellus, second joint of the flagellum half as long again as the 

 third. Eyes very feebly divergent towards the clypeus ; a very minute 

 s]3ine projecting over the base of the mandibles ; posterior ocelli as far 

 from each other as from the eyes. Mesopleuree without spines ; second 

 ventral segment without a raised area at the base ; first segment a little 

 broader than long ; fifth ventral segment with the apical margin slightly 

 produced in the middle and recurved, the segment raised laterally. Pygi- 

 dial area very narrow, slightly narrower in the middle than at the extre- 

 mities, rounded at the apex, three times as long as the greatest breadth. 

 Closely but not coarsely punctured ; the basal area of the median segment 

 smooth and shining with an indistinct median groove. Wings hyaline, 

 with a fuscous cloud at the apex, nervures fascous, stigma testaceous. 

 First recurrent nervure received at one-third from the base of the second 

 cubital cell. 



(S . Clypeus longer than broad, the apical margin rounded at the sides, 

 narrowly truncate in the middle. Fisrt abdominal segment much longer 

 than broad ; pygidial area half as long again as the breadth at the base, 

 slightly narrowed to the apex. 



Habitat — Barrackpore (^Rothnei/) ; N. Kanara ( Comber). 



Cerceris faatidiosa sp. n. 



5. Flava ; vertice mesonotoque nigro-maculatis, segmentis dorsalibus 

 rufo-fasciatis ; clypeo convexo, porrecto, apice inter carinas duas triangu- 

 lariter truncato ; segmento mediano area basali sparse punctata. 



Long. 11 nun. 



Cljrpeus strongly convex, nearly as long as broad, obliquely depressed 

 from near the middle, and furnished with two carinye enclosing an elongate 

 triangular and depressed space at the apex, the apical margin very broad- 

 ly rounded. Cheeks narrower than the eyes at their greatest breadth ; 

 eyes nearly parallel ; second joint of the flagellum distinctly longer than 

 the third. Pronotum not depressed in the middle, rounded at the angles ; 

 mesopleurte with two very minute spines. First abdominal segment much 

 broader than long, subtuberculate at the base on the dorsal surface ; second 

 ventral segment without a raised area at the base, fifth ventral segment not 

 raised at the apex. Pygidial area sparsely punctured, more than half 

 as long again as broad, the sides almost parallel, broadly truncate at the 

 apex. Closely iDunctured, more sparsely and shallowly on the abdomen 

 than elsewhere ; enclosed area at the base of the median segment sparsely 

 punctured, divided by a very shallowly impressed line. 



