Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xli. (1897), No. 4. 139 



Ceratina beata, sp. nov. 



Nigra, flavo-macnlata; alis hyalinis. Long, fere 5 mm. 



Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Head shining, impunctate, glabrous, lemon-yellow; a 

 broad black line runs down to the mandibles, curving 

 round the side of the clypeus, and continued broadly 

 upwards till it joins a broad black mark on the vertex, 

 enclosing two yellow marks joined at the apex above the 

 antennae, these two yellow marks being joined to the 

 lower yellow one by a narrow line between the antennas ; 

 the inner orbits are yellow ; behind the eyes is a broad 

 yellow line which reaches near to the base of the man- 

 dibles, nearing the eyes as it does so ; on the top of 

 the occiput is a yellow line dilated in the middle ; the 

 vertex behind the eyes has large shallow punctures ; the 

 mandibular teeth black. Antennae black, rufo-testaceous 

 beneath ; the scape having a yellower line. Prothorax 

 yellow ; the mesonotum black, with two yellow longi- 

 tudinal lines in the centre and two narrower ones at 

 the sides, neither reaching the base nor apex ; its base 

 obscurely punctured. Scutellum and post-scutellum 

 yellow ; the sides and apex of the median segment 

 shagreened. Mesopleurae closely punctured, yellow, except 

 a broad line, below the wings and round the apex; the 

 metapleura black ; under the wings is a raised shining 

 spot. Legs entirely lemon-yellow ; thickly covered with 

 white hairs. Abdomen yellow, shining, minutely punc- 

 tured, the segments broadly black at the base ; the ventral 

 surface yellow. 



Ceratina moderata, sp. nov. 



Nigra ; labro, clypeo, basi tibiarum, lineisque abdominis, 

 flavis; alis hyalinis. Long. 5 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Black ; the labrum, clypeus, a curved line on the face 

 close to the eyes and between the antennae, the dilated 



