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segment bluntly serrate. Abdomen about as long as the 

 head and thorax united ; the hairs on the first and second 

 segment black. Pygidium apparently finely punctured ; 

 ventral segments fringed with fulvous hairs. Legs : femora 

 and coxae piceous ; tibia; and tarsi ferruginous ; the tibial 

 spines (6 in a row) black ; the hair long and pale fulvous. 

 Length, 9 mm. 



MUTILLA BlIUDDA, sp. nov. 



Black, the thorax ferruginous ; an oval spot on the base 

 of second segment and the whole of the third pale golden- 

 fulvous. Head narrower than thorax, very coarsely punc- 

 tured, almost reticulated ; eyes large, oval, antennal tubercles 

 impunctate ; vertex not much raised above the eyes, roundly 

 convex ; the clypeus fringed with long fulvous, the rest of 

 the head sparsely with fuscous hairs ; mandibles piceous 

 in the middle. Scape covered with pale fulvous hairs ; 

 the flagellum with a pale down, brownish beneath ; the 

 third joint not much longer than the fourth, shorter than 

 the fourth and fifth united. Thorax coarsely longitudinally 

 reticulated, the pleurae entirely impunctate ; becoming 

 gradually but not much narrowed from extreme base to 

 apex ; the edges rough, but without any distinct tubercles ; 

 apex of median segment obliquely sloped. Abdomen 

 longer than the head and thorax united ; the first segment 

 dilated, longitudinally punctured on the second segment ; 

 the others with their apices shining, impunctate, glabrous ; 

 the pygidium coarsely punctured ; the extreme apex finely 

 transversely striated ; the apical ventral segments fringed 

 with long fulvous hairs. Legs : the femora sparsely covered 

 with longish blackish hairs ; the tibiae and tarsi thickly 

 with pale fulvo-golden ; the calcaria and the bristles on the 

 underside of the tarsi rufous ; the four tibial spines stout 

 black. 



Length, 1 1 mm. 



