Hymcnoptera Orientalis. 135 



mark on the base and apex of the second segment and the 

 third segment white. Antennae with the third joint about 

 one quarter longer than the fourth ; the first at apex, the 

 second and the terminal beneath more or less piceous. 

 Head not much wider than the thorax, coarsely punctured, 

 densely covered with silvery hair ; the antennal tubercles 

 piceous, aciculate. Eyes oval, moderate, reaching quite 

 close to the top of the head. Thorax quadrate, rounded 

 at base and apex, the sides rough, slightly concave ; above 

 coarsely longitudinally punctured, the pleurae impunctate, 

 densely covered with white hairs, the upper also densely 

 covered with white hairs. Abdomen as long as the head 

 and thorax united, subsessile, dilated at the base of second 

 segment, becoming gradually narrowed to the apex ; coarsely 

 punctured, in the middle bearing rufous hairs, the sides 

 with silvery hair ; pygidium rufous, longitudinally striated, 

 the ventral segments fringed with long silvery hairs. Legs 

 covered with long silvery hairs ; the tibial spines testaceous; 

 the spurs white. 



Length, a little over 6 mm. 



MUTILLA YERBURGHI, Sp. UOV. 



Metallic-blue, covered with a whitish pubescence ; the 

 antennae black ; wings fusco-hyaline. Antennae of moderate 

 length ; the third joint shorter than the fourth. Eyes 

 emarginate. Head punctured, behind the ocelli almost 

 smooth ; a channel runs down from the lateral ocelli. 

 Thorax rather strongly punctured, very slightly convex ; 

 the median segment reticulated ; pro- and metapleurae with 

 an oblique excavation, shining, almost smooth except for an 

 indistinct striation. Parapsidal furrows distinct. Abdomen 

 strongly punctured ; the second and following segments 

 thinly fringed with pale hair. Thorax truncated in front, 

 rounded behind. Legs covered with white hairs ; the cal- 

 caria white. Abdomen subsessile. 



Length, 9 mm. 



