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A MONOGRAPH OF THE WASPS OF THE GENUS 

 CERCERIIS INHABITING BRITISH INDIA. 



With notes on other Asiatic Species. 



BY 



Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Continued from page dlG of this Volume.') 



Part II. 



(With Plates C & B.) 



Cevceris pruinosa Morice. 



Cevceris ijnmiosa Morice Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 303, 1897. $ . 



$ . Pallide flava, vertice mesonotoque nigro-maculatis ; flagello segmen- 

 tisque abdominalibus apice anguste ferrugineis ; clypeo dimidio apicali 

 subconcavo, angulis producto ; segment© ventrali secundo area basali 

 elevata lata ; segmento mediano area basali nitida. 



Long. 10 mm. 



5 . Clypeus about half as broad again at the apex as long, the apical 

 half subconcavely depressed, widely and shallowly emarginate on the 

 apical margin and produced at the angles. Antennae inserted a little 

 further from the anterior ocellus than from the base of the clypeus, second 

 joint of the flagellum scarcely longer than the third. Posterior ocelli as 

 far from the eyes as from each other. Pronotum depressed in the middle ; 

 mesopleurse without tubercles. First abdominal segment broader than 

 long ; the raised area at the base of the second ventral segment broad ; 

 pygidial area ovate, much broader at the base than at the apex. Shallow- 

 ly and sparsely punctured on the dorsal surface of the thorax, more closely 

 and deeply elsewhere ; the enclosed area at the base of the median seg- 

 ment smooth, but not highly polished, with a median groove. Fifth 

 ventral segment widely emarginate at the apex. Wings hyaline ; first 

 recurrent nervure received before one-third from the base of the second 

 cubital cell. 



Habitat. — Quetta {Nurse). July. 



Originally described from Abbasiyeh in Egypt ; also taken by Mr. Eaton 

 at Biskra, Algeria. 



Cercens spectabilis Rad. 

 Cerceris spectfibUu Had. Horte Soc. Ent. Ifoss. XX, p. 36, 1886. 

 2 . Flava ; abdomine incisuris ferrugineis ; flagello testaceo ; vertice, 

 mesonoto, areaque basali segmenti mediani nigris ; clypeo supra dimidium 



