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Show 1896.] HYMENOPTERA OF CEYLON. 445 petiole and the posterior margins of the 3rd and 4th segments light red; underneath the abdomen is brown, with the posterior margins of all the segments reddish. Pundaloya (Green coll.). This large and well-marked species I have ventured to name after Mr. Green. It is not closely allied to any species of Gorytes known to me. At the time of capture of the type she was carrying off a Homopterous insect with which to store her nest. Genus BEMBEX, Fabricius. 256. BEMBEX SULPHURESCENS, Dahlbom. Bembex sulphurescens, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 180, and 491, 24 ; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iv. 328, 46 ; id. Jour. Linn. Soc xi. (1867), 366. 3; Sich. Hym. d. Novara-Beise, 141; Handlirsch, Sitz. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 1893, 897, 137. 257. BEMBEX TREPANDA, Dahlbom. Bembex trepanda, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 181, and 490, 23; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iv. 328, 45; id. Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 366, 2; Sich. Hym. d. Novara-Beise, 141 ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iii. (1890), 247, 2; Handlirsch, Sitz. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 1893, 736, 19. Pundaloya (Green coll.). 258. BEMBEX INDICA, Handlirsch. ? Bembex glauca, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i. 285, 5; Oliv. Encycl. Method, iv. 291, 6 2 ; ^abr. Ent. Syst, ii. 249 $ ; Syst. Piez. 224, 8 ; Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 491 $ 8 . Bembex indica, Handlirsch, Sitz. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 1893, 771, 39. 259. BEMBEX BORREI, Handlirsch. Bembex borrei, Handlirsch, Sitz. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 1893, 866, 102. Family CERCERIDJE, Wesmael. Genus CERCERIS, Latreille. 260. CERCERIS NOVAR^E, Saussure. Cerceris novarce, Sauss. Hym. d. Novara-Beise, 92, 9 $. (1867), pi. iv. f. 54; Cam. Mem. & Proc Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iii. (1890), 249, 14 & 257. ? Cerceris fervens, Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xii. (1873), 411; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iii. (1890), 249, 6 & 256. Pundaloya (Green coll.). One specimen, a male, in Mr. Green's collection has the yellow bands on the abdominal segments very narrow, and interrupted in the middle above. |
