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Yellow ; a large black spot round the ocelli, mesouotum black with four 

 broad longitudinal yellow bands, the margins and central line of the 

 enclosed area on the median segment and a line continued to the apex of 

 the segment black ; first dorsal abdominal segment, pygidial area and the 

 other dorsal segments broadly at the base light ferruginous. Wings 

 hyaline, infuscated at the apex, stigma testaceous. 



Habitat — Karachi {Comber). 



This species somewhat resembles C. pulcJiella Klug, but is without the 

 raised area at the base of the second ventral segment, the form of the 

 clypeus on the oblique anterior portion is different, as is also the sculpture 

 of the enclosed area at the base of the median segment. 



Cerceris vlvjnr:liopliora sp. n. 



5 . Nigra, delicatissime punctata, etiam in area basali segmenti 

 mediani ; clypeo, fronte, scapo, macula magna post oculos, pronoto, tegulis, 

 scutello, postscutello, segmento mediano macula utrinque, segmentis 1 — o 

 fasciis latis, tibiis tarsisque fiavis ; alis hyalines, apice leviter infumatis ; 

 clypeo convexo, porrecto, nasuto, margine apicali sub rostro bidentatos ; 

 mesopleuris haud tuberculatis ; segmento ventrali secundo area basali 

 elevata nulla ; area pygidiali triangulari, apice acuta. 

 Long. 10 mm. 



5 . Clypeus porrect, convex, produced into a noselike process at the 

 apex, the margin below the process with a tooth on each side. A.ntennie 

 inserted about half as far again from the anterior ocellus as from the base 

 of the clypeus, the second joint of the flagellum less than half as long 

 again as the third. Posterior ocelli a little further from the eyes than 

 from each other ; the inner margins of the eyes parallel. Pronotum not 

 depressed in the middle ; mesoijleurte without tubercles ; second ventral 

 segment tvithout a raised area at the base ; first segment twice as broad 

 as long, the abdominal segments broad and scarcely constricted at the 

 base. Pygidial area granulate, of an elongate triangular shape, ciliated at 

 the sides. Very finely and closely punctured, rather sparsely on the 

 scutellum. JFirst recurrent nervure received before one-third from the 

 base of the second cubital cell. 



(5. Differs from the female as follows: clypeus longer than broad,, 

 rounded at the apex, with three small teeth on the margin, and almost flat. 

 The whole insect much more coarsely punctured ; the basal area of the- 

 median segment shining, finely punctured, with short longitudinal strige at 

 the base. Abdominal segments constricted at the base ; the first segment 

 about half as broad again as long. Pygidial area as broad at the base as 

 long, the apical margin truncate and less than'half as broad as the base. 



Habitat — Quetta (Nurse). May. 



