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Cerceris goddardi n. sp. 
Female (type). Length slightly over 10 mm. ; black, with yellow 
markings and a little red ; hair scanty and pale, but forming rather conspicuous 
ochreous tomentum on fifth tergite ; head, thorax and abdomen densely and 
strongly punctured, head broad, face very broad, orbits diverging below ; 
clypeus short and transverse, its middle portion convex, its lateral portions 
band -like, the whole pale yellow except the lower margin of the middle portion 
which is black, and furnished with a pair of small tubercles on each side, the 
inner ones much the smallest ; below the middle, the clypeus is expanded into a 
broad deeply emarginate or excavated lamina, the margin reddish, and ending 
on each side in a dark rounded angular projection (perhaps analogous to the 
structure in C. armigera Turner, but that is said to be apical, and not a 
lamina from the disc) ; mandibles externally yellow suffused with reddish, the 
apex black ; lateral face-marks broad, light yellow, ending obtusely a little 
above level of antennae, the inner margin convex ; a narrow yellow line from 
near middle ocellus to upper end of supraclypeal area ; four equally spaced 
yellow spots on top of head, the outermost behind top of eyes ; antennae black 
above, dull ferruginous beneath, including scape ; niesothorax very coarsely 
sculptured, entirely black ; prothorax above with a pair of large broad-cuneiform 
light-yellow marks ; tubercles black ; scutellum somewhat shining, with sparse 
large punctures, and a yellow spot at each side ; postseutelluin with a yellow 
band ; metathorax with a pair of very large, long-oval, whitish marks, approach- 
ing below ; the area large, triangular, dull, minutely roughened, with a delicate 
median sulcus, mesopleura not tuberculate ; tegulae bright ferruginous ; wings 
dusky hyaline, darker in costal region, stigma orange ; second cubital cell very 
broad, receiving recurrent nervure at middle (beyond middle in G. hackeriana) : 
legs black, with knees, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous ; abdomen with petiole 
considerably longer than broad, black at base, pale yellow in middle, red at 
apex ; second tergite with a large crescentic yellow mark on each side, third 
black, fourth with apical half yellow, fifth with a narrow apical yellow band 
and the extreme margin red ; pygidial plate broad, ferruginous, the apical 
corners angulate ; venter not modified. 
Male. Length about 9 mm. ; clypeus yellow, convex, with no lamina ; 
frontal yellow stripe reaching clypeus ; black bands between upper part of 
clypeus and lateral marks narrow ; scape short, swollen, orange in front ; no 
yellow' spots at top of head ; tegulse orange, black at base and narrowly in 
front ; scutellum entirely black ; second [cubital cell not broadened, its outer 
side incomplete above (the same on both sides), recurrent nervure received 
distinctly before the middle ; third cubital cell not so produced apically ; 
nervures darker ; stigma less brightly coloured ; anterior and middle trochanters 
and femora red in front ; second tergite with a broad bright-yellow band, 
narrower in middle, and with a linear (suffused) red interruption ; fourth and 
fifth tergites with yellow bands ; pygidial plate mainly black, but dark red at 
apex and sides, and on each side of it a yellow spot ; venter simple. The 
sixth tergite has a rather obscure yellow band, failing in middle. 
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