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on the lower part of the head pale to silvery. Eyes 

 oval, convex ; vertex convex, raised above the top of 

 the eyes. Scape of the antennae punctured, covered with 

 glistening, silvery hairs ; the flagellum thick, tapering 

 towards the apex, where it is brownish ; the third joint 

 more than twice the length of the fourth, and longer than 

 the fourth and fifth united. Thorax elongate quadrate, 

 with the punctures larger and deeper than on the head, the 

 mesopleuras almost opaque, aciculate ; above the line of 

 separation, between the meso — meta — and median, segment 

 is obliterated ; the prothorax is very short ; the mesothorax 

 becomes a little dilated towards the apex ; the sides at the 

 apex with two obtuse tubercles ; the base being also 

 dilated, so that the central region is narrower than the basal 

 and apical. On the base of the median segment, at the 

 side, is a large, shining, oblique tooth. Abdomen deep 

 black, at base subsessile ; longer than the head and thorax 

 united ; above thickly covered with black hairs ; there is a 

 line of dark, fulvous hairs on the side of the second seg- 

 ment ; pygidium finely rugose, covered with long brownish 

 hairs. Legs covered with long white hairs ; the calcaria 

 pale yellowish-testaceous ; the tibiae with stout spines. 

 Length, 12mm. 



MUTILLA TAPROBAN.E, Sp. flOV. 



Black, the thorax ferruginous ; an ovate mark on the 

 second segment in the middle, a square one at its apex, and 

 the third segment silvery-white. Head as wide as the 

 thorax, coarsely rugosely punctured ; sparsely covered with 

 long pale hairs ; convex above, but not much developed 

 above the eyes ; antennal tubercles smooth shining. Scape of 

 antennas and the second joint piceous ; the third joint more 

 than twice the length of the fourth, and as long as the 

 fourth and fifth united. Thorax punctured like the head, 

 quadrate ; the hairs long and black ; the sides very slightly 



