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Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



tibiae also with a pale pubescence ; the tarsi have the 

 hairs thicker and shorter. Wings, nervures, and stigma 

 black ; the second recurrent nervure received shortly 

 before the first transverse cubital. Petiole rugosely 

 punctured ; covered with long white hair ; the rest of 

 the abdomen very smooth and shining, almost glabrous, 

 except at the apex, where there are a few pale hairs. 



POMPILIDiE. 



CEROPALES ALBOVARIEGATA, Sp. 110V. 



Lutea ; capite thoraceque albo-maculatis ; vertice, pronoto 

 basique mesonoti, nigris ; alts hyalinis. d. Long. 8 mm. 



Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Antennae black ; the basal two joints of the flagellum 

 brownish beneath ; the scape yellowish beneath ; the 

 flagellum thickly covered with short pubescence. Head 

 shining, impunctate; the front, vertex and occiput, except 

 at the sides, black ; the rest white ; the labrum brownish ; 

 the tips of the mandibles black ; the antennal tubercles 

 largely projecting above the antennae, clear white ; oval, 

 deeply triangularly cleft down the middle ; the anterior 

 ocellus in a depression from which runs a furrow. Thorax 

 smooth, shining, impunctate, glabrous ; the pronotum 

 black, lined with white at the apex ; its sides at the base 

 projecting beneath, clear white ; the mesonotum black to 

 the scutellum, in front of which it is white, it having also 

 a white line at the tegulae ; there is a white mark under 

 the tegulae, a smaller one under the hind wings ; a large 

 mark at the base of the mesopleurae on the lowerside, and 

 a narrow line opposite it at the apex, a small triangular 

 oblique mark and a curved one over the hind coxae, clear 

 white ; legs fulvous ; the anterior coxae white beneath ; 

 the hind tarsi fuscous. Wings clear hyaline ; the stigma 

 and nervures black. 



