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coppery green, the elypeus and abdomen more distinctly coppery golden ; 

 antennae very dark red, the first two joints metallic purple ; anterior 

 femora metallic green, anterior tibiae and intermediate and posterior 

 femora and tibiae metallic purple ; anterior tarsi dark testaceous, inter- 

 mediate and posterior tarsi piceous ; ventral abdominal segments 

 metallic purple ; almost entirely devoid of pubescence or pile ; wings 

 hyaline, nervures blackish, tegulae of the same colour as thorax. 



$ Similar, the abdomen proportionately broader, the third segment 

 shorter and more obtuse at apex, the teeth longer but not quite so 

 regular ; a slight carina above facial hollow, and the portions of the 

 front on each side of the carina which runs towards the anterior ocellus 

 flattened and depressed, the punctures on this portion running into 

 longitudinal striae ; the elypeus and the whole of the front below the 

 anterior ocellus deep-blue, changing into purple in some lights ; second 

 joint of antennae metallic green. 



Long, 8 mm. 



Habitat : Quetta ; a single specimen of each sex. 

 Parnopes vakillbsi (Bwjss.). 



One specimen from Quetta. 



Mutilla vesta, n. sp. {Dudgeon MS.) 

 Eyes wide apart, small and round ; head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured, abdomen longitudinally striate ; head slightly wider than 

 thorax, rounded and without a carina ; thorax sub-hexagonal, being 

 extended laterally into a sharp tubercle, dorsally convex ; abdomen with 

 the first segment constricted, and with a sharp ventral carina. Head, 

 antennae, legs, and abdomen black ; thorax brick red ; head and thorax 

 sparsely clothed with coarse black hairs, abdomen with black pubescence, 

 a broad band of golden pubescence on the apical margin of the first, and 

 a narrower one on the apical margin of the second segment ; son e 

 golden pubescence on the sides of the third and fourth segments ; tibiae 

 and tarsi with silvery pubescence. 



Long. 29 mm. 



Habitat : Baijnath, Kangra Valley, 3,000 feet. 



Position in Bingham's key — A. f. a. Much larger than any of the 

 others in this group, and differs in having the first abdominal segment 

 constricted, with a broad gold band on its apical margin, and also in the 

 eyes being small and wide apart. 



