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Ceratina ornatifera, sp. 110V. 

 Long. 8 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Very similar to C. hieroglyphica, but with the legs 

 entirely black, except a yellow line on the tibiae. 



Head shining, sparsely covered with long fuscous 

 hairs ; the vertex with scattered punctures ; a depression, 

 narrowed towards the apex, in front of the anterior 

 ocellus ; the sides of which are flat, shining, and bear a 

 row of punctures, there being a row of three inside of it at 

 the apex ; there is a sharp keel between the antennae, 

 from which the sides slope sharply and are punctured. 

 The clypeus has widely separated punctures, except in the 

 centre ; the labrum is rugosely punctured. Antennae 

 entirely black, smooth, shining, the scape with a few long 

 fuscous hairs. On the clypeus, extending from the base 

 to the apex, is a broad yellow mark, which at its apex 

 extends on either side to the base of the mandibles, where 

 it is bounded by a curved furrow ; on each side of the 

 central yellow mark is a yellow mark with its apical half 

 broadened on the inner side ; and over the central yellow 

 mark is a broad curved one which extends beyond its 

 sides, and there are two oblique broad lines, narrowed at 

 base and apex behind the eyes ; above the antennae are 

 two yellow marks wider than long. Thorax black, 

 shining ; the pronotum with a broad line on either side in 

 the centre ; the tubercles, the apex of the tegulae and a 

 broad slightly curved mark on the scutellum, yellow ; the 

 scutellum slightly punctured at the base and apex ; the 

 median segment coarsely shagreened ; the base flat, more 

 shining in front laterally. The propleurae at the top 

 shining, smooth ; the rest closely and strongly longi- 

 tudinally shagreened ; the mesopleura and sternum with 

 large distinctly separated punctures ; the metapleurse at 

 the base closely punctured, the rest coarsely shagreened. 



