366 C. T. Bingham: Aculeate Hymenoptera. [Voi,. II, 



Ceratina hhawani, form nov. 



2 . Black and shining, the bases of the mandibles, a large 

 quadrate spot on the labrum^ an irregular, very broad^ _|_ shaped 

 mark on the clypeus, an oblong mark on either side of the face 

 along the middle of the inner orbits, a transverse line on the pro- 

 notum, the tubercles, and the calcaria of all the tibise of the legs 

 yellowish white; very narrow transverse bands along the junctions 

 of the first and second, second and third, and third and fourth 

 abdominal segments dull castaneous. Head, smooth and pol- 

 ished ; thorax, with the exception of the postscutellum, very 

 sparsely and finely punctured ; postscutellum and abdomen quite 

 as finely but much more closely punctate ; the enclosed space at 

 base of the median segment very minutely but very densely punc- 

 tured and rugulose. Head broader than the thorax, with the 

 hollows round the bases of the antennse and on the face above 

 characteristic of Ceratina] antennae short, stout; second, third, 

 and fourth joints of the flagellum subequal. Thorax short, with 

 medial and sublateral, short, longitudinally impressed lines ; 

 median segment compressed, rounded, and vertical posteriorly. 

 Legs stout. Wings ample, hyaline ; nervures and stigma very 

 dark brown ; tegulse testaceous. Abdomen long, massive, longer 

 than head and thorax united. 



Length. — 2,8; exp. I'j mm. 



Hah. — Himalayas : Simla hills, Theog 8,000 feet. 



Allodape parvula, Smith. . 



Allodape parvula^ Smith, New Spec. Hym. Brit. Mus., 1879, 

 p. 98 ; Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897, P- 5*^7- 

 Hah. — Jubbulpore. 



Heriades parvula, Bingham. 



Heriades parvula, Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897^ 

 p. 508. - 



Hah.— Mhow. • '. .~ 



I procured it in Burma. ■ - 



Hahropoda magretti , Bingham. 

 Hahropoda magretti, Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897, 



p- 523. . ; 



Hah. — Ferozepore. ...... 



Hahropoda krishna, form nov. 



a' . Black. Head, thorax, and abdomen densely covered with 

 long, pale brownish yellow pubescence turning to ferruginous golden 

 on the posterior segments of the abdomen, and mixed through- 

 out with a sprinkling of black hairs, the surface beneath more or 

 less closely and finely punctured. Head : mandibles white ; apical 



