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irregularly variegated with yellow and. ferruginous ; first abdominal segment 

 .and second ventral segment ferruginous red. Wings hyaline, with a 

 ^slnall fuscous cloud at the apex, nervures fuscous. 



Hahitat. — Nasik, W. India. {Comber). 



This is very near C. viscJam Cam., the shape of the pygidial area and the 

 •sculpture being very similar, but the clypeus is truncate, not incised, and 

 ^;he petiole is feruginous. The latter distinction is of little importance, but 

 I consider the shape of the clypeus quite sufficient for specific distinction. 



Cf-rcerU lischnu Cam. 



Cerceris dschmi Cam. Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc. (4) III., p. 2o4, 

 1890. $ 6. 



Cerceris dolosa Nurse Ann. and Mag. Nat. History (7) XI., p. r)25, 1903. 



5 . Nigra ; Mandibulis basi, clypeo in medio, margine interiore oculorum 

 late, scapo subtus, segmentis tertio quintoque fascia angusta apicali, 

 •segmento ventrali tertio fere toto, tibiis subtus tarsisque j)allide flavis , 

 fiagello subtus, coxis, trochanteribus, femoribus, segmentoque ventrali 

 ■secundo forrugineis, alis hyalinis, apice leviter infumatis, clypeo lamina 

 :apicali libera, apice incisa ; segmento mediano area basali longitudinaliter 

 ■striata ; segmento ventrali secundo area basali elevata. 



.:S . Feminee similis ; clypeo apice rotundato, haud inciso. 



Long. 9 '^ mm., J " mm. 



$ . Clypeus as long as broad, the lamina free at the apex and shallowly 

 incised. Antennte 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 almost as far from each 

 ■other as from the eyes, the inner margins of the eyes parallel. Mesopleuras 

 without tubercles ; first abdominal segment nearly as long as broad ; 

 second ventral segment with a raised area at the base ; pygidial area 

 narrow, broadest at the base, gradually narrowed to the apical margin, 

 which is very narrowly truncate, fully twice as long as the greatest breadth. 

 Coarsely and closely punctured, the enclosed area at the base of the 

 median segment coarsely longitudinally striated. First recurrent nervure 

 received close to the middle of the second cubital cell. 



S . The clypeus is without the free lamina at the apex broadly rounded 

 ■on the apical margin, with two minute teeth in the middle ; first abdominal, 

 segment much longer than broad ; pygidial area nearlj'- square. 



Habitat. — Abu {Xurse). Kangra Valley, 4,o00 ft. {Dudf/er-n). Oddich- 

 ludan, N. Ceylon {Wickwar). 



The type is not marked in llothney's collection and I doubt if Bingham's 

 ■description is taken from a female of this species. There is no mention 

 of ferruginous on the basal and second abdominal segments in Cameron's 

 description, which agrees well with dolnm. The male referred by Cameron 



