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truncato, segmento mediano area basali basi longitudinaliter striata, 

 segmento ventrali secvindo area elevata nulla ; alis hyalinis, apice leviter 

 infuscatis. 



Long. 9 mm. 



$ , Clypeus a little longer than the greatest breadth, slightly narrowed 

 towards the apex, the apical margin truncate. Antennie inserted a little 

 nearer to the base of the clypeus than to the anterior ocellus, second joint 

 of the flagellum as long as the first and third combined ; the inter-antennal 

 carina low, not reaching the base of the clypeus. Cheeks narrower than 

 the greatest breadth of the eyes ; posterior ocelli a little further from the 

 eyes than from each other. Mesopleurie without tubercles. First 

 abdominal segment nearly twice as broad as long ; second ventral segment 

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

 at the apex, depressed in the middle of the apical half. Pygidial area 

 more than half as long again as the greatest breadth, gradually narrowed 

 from the base and almost pointed at the apex. Deeply and coarsely 

 punctured, more sparsely and shallowly on the abdomen ; the enclosed 

 area at the base of the median segment coarsely longitudinally striated at 

 the base, punctured between the stri;e, very finely transversely striated 

 at the apex, with a deep median furrow. 



Habitat — Quetta [Nurse). June. 



Described by Schletterer from Hungary and Bulgaria. Typical speci- 

 mens are withoiit the broad yellow band on the basal abdominal segment. 

 The entirely black second segment renders the species rather conspicuous 

 amongst other Quetta species. 



Cerceris nursei sp. n. 



5 . Nigra, nitida, sparse punctata ; clypeo, fronte, scapo, genis, vertice 

 macula utrinque, pronoto, tegulis, mesoplcuris fascia lata, scutello, post- 

 scutello, segmento mediano macula utrinque, sogmentis abdominalibus 1—5 

 basi anguste nigro, pedibusque flavis, flagello anoque fusco ferrugineis ; 

 clypeo piano, apice truncato ; segmento mediano area basali nitida, in 

 angulis oblique striata ; segmento ventrali secundo area basali elevata 

 nulla. 



Long. 9 mm. 



(S . Feminse similis, capite thoracequu minus flavo pictis ; clypeo con- 

 cave depresso, angulis apicalibus dente minuto armato. 



9 . Clypeus almost flat, much broader than long and broadly truncate 

 at the apex. Antenna inserted about half as far again from the anterior 

 ocellus as from the base of the clypeus, the second joint of the flagel- 

 lum a little longer than the third. Cheeks not quite as broad as the eyes ; 

 posterior ocelli about half as far again from the eyes as from each other ; 

 eyes diverging very slightly towards the clypeus, Pronotum not depressed 



