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other segments covered with shallow clearly separated 

 punctures ; the basal segments bare ; the apical thickly 

 covered with silvery pubescence, especially at their 

 apices ; ventral hairs dense, aureo-fulvous ; the apical 

 segment strongly punctured, fringed at the apex with 

 pale fulvous hairs. Legs stout, covered with long white 

 hairs ; the anterior femora and tibiae strongly punctured, 

 the tibiae almost rugose ; the tarsi densely covered with 

 long golden hairs. The wings clear hyaline ; the nervures 

 black ; the tegulae black, edged with white in front ; 

 shining, impunctate. 



Ceratina propinqua, sp. nov. (PL 4, f. 20). 



Ccerulea; clypco, geniculis tarsisque albis ; alis liyalinis. 

 2. Long. 4 — 5 mm. 



Hub. Mussouri (Rothncy). 



Head blue, an elongated shining impunctate white 

 mark, rounded at the top, a little dilated at the apex, 

 on the clypeus ; the front in centre broadly carinate, the 

 apex however of it being sharply margined, and from 

 the ocelli a curved shining keel runs into it from either 

 ocellus ; the front and vertex very finely punctured ; the 

 face on either side of the white mark with large irregular 

 punctures, which are continued up in a single row along 

 the inner orbits. Antennae black, brownish beneath. 

 Mesonotum closely and finely punctured, shining ; the 

 scutellum more closely and finely punctured ; the median 

 segment finely and closely punctured, shining, except in 

 the middle at the base ; the pleurae closely punctured. 

 Legs thickly covered with white hairs ; the anterior 

 femora at the apex above and more broadly beneath, 

 and the tibiae and tarsi white ; the tibiae for the greater 

 part fuscous behind ; the hinder tibiae fuscous, white at 

 the base. Wings clear hyaline, the nervures fuscous, 

 the stigma darker ; the first and second transverse cubital 



