1896. ] HYMENOPTERA OF CEYLON. 445 
petiole and the posterior margins of the 3rd and 4th segments 
light red ; underneath the abdomen is brown, with the posterior 
margins of all the segments reddish. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
This large and well-marked species I have ventured to name 
after Mr. Green. It is not closely allied to any species of Gorytes 
known to me. At the time of capture of the type she was 
carrying off a Homopterous insect with which to store her nest. 
Genus Bemeex, Fabricius. 
256. BEMBEX SULPHURESCENS, Dahlbom. 
Bembex sulphurescens, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 150, and 491, 24; 
Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iv. 328, 46; id. Jour. Linn. Soe. xi. 
(1867), 366, 3; Sich. Hym. d. Novara-Reise, 141; Handlirsch, 
Sitz. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 1893, 897, 137. 
257. BEMBEX TREPANDA, Dahlbom. 
_ Bembex trepanda, Dablb. Hym. Eur. i. 181, and 490, 23; 
Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iv. 328, 45; id. Jour. Linn. Soe, xi. 
(1867), 366, 2; Sich. Hym. d.’Novara-Reise, 141; Cam. Mem. & 
Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soe. ser. 4, iii. (1890), 247, 2; Hand- 
lirsch, Sitz. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 1893, 736, 19. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
258. Bempex rnpica, Handlirsch. 
' 2? Bembex glauca, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i. 285, 5; Oliv. Encycl. 
Méthod. iv. 291,692; Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 249 9; Syst. Piez. 224, 
8; Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 4919 ¢. 
Bembex indica, Handlirsch, Sitz. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 
1893, 771, 39. 
259. BemMBex BOoRREI, Handlirsch. 
Bembex borrei, Handlirsch, Sitz. d.k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 
1893, 866, 102. 
Family CERcERID x, Wesmael. 
Genus Crrczuris, Latreille. 
260. CERCERIS NOVAR#, Saussure. 
. Cerceris. novare, Sauss. Hym. d. Novara-Reise, 92, 9 2 (1867), 
pl. iv. f.54; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, 
iii. (1890), 249, 14 & 257. 
? Cerceris fervens, Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xii. 
(1873), 411; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, 
iii, (1890), 249, 6 & 256. 
. Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
One specimen, a male, in Mr. Green’s collection has the yellow 
bands on the abdominal segments very narrow, and interrupted in 
the middle above. 
