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Ceratina hieroglyphica. 
3 — di fitere de la femelle par la tache pale du chaperon 
elargie ä son bord, une tache blanche sur le labre, toutes les 
jambes et les tarses posterieurs tachetes d’un blanc d’ivoire, ainsi 
que le bas des cuisser anterieures; le bord du 7 segment 
abdominal large et deprime; ni carene, ni tubercule souven¬ 
trales.“ (Aegyptus.) 
25. Ceratina hieroglyphica Sm. 
1854. — Ceratina hieroglyphica Smith, cT ? — Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. 
II. p. 226. 
1890. — Ceratina hieroglyphica Friese, (£•'$> — Termesz. Füz. XIX. p. 62. 
*— Black, a T-shaped mark on the clypeus, a trans- 
verse line above, two spots above the insertion of the antennae 
and an abbreviated line on the inner* and outer margin of the 
eyes, yellow. Thorax, a lunate spot on the scutellum, two ab¬ 
breviated lines on the mesothorax, an epaulet over the tegulae, 
the collar and tubercles yellow; the tibiae above and the tarsi 
yellow; the latter stained with ferruginous; the segments of the 
segments of the abdomen have a transverse yellow band not 
quite touching the apical margins, the bands attenuated on each 
side, and towards the extreme lateral margins they are suddenly 
widened, the basal segment has a central spot and one 
on each side, the three united by two narrow curved lines; 
sometimes the basal segment has a transverse yellow line, which 
has two black spots; the apical segment black; beneath, the 
margins of the segments are narrowly testaceous, and ciliated 
with pale hairs. 
3 — the male closely resembling the the yellow 
markings being broader, the scape of the antennae in front, the 
labrum and anterior femora are also yellow, the margins of the 
abdominal segments beneath are more broadly testaceous; the 
entire insect closely and rather strongly punctured, the disk of 
the tliorax and the region ofthe insertion of the antennae polished 
and sparingly punctured. — Long. 3-4 lines (= 6 l / 2 — 87 2 mm) 
N.-India, Hongkong, Philippine Island.“ 
Ceratina hieroglyphica liegt mir in mehreren Exemplaren. 
3 ? vor, von Hongkong 29. Juli bis 4. August 1891 (Seitz), 
Khasia Hills (India), im Mus. Wien 4 von Hongkong 
(Frauenfeld 1867). 
