Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xliv. (1900), No. 15. 



XV. Hymenoptera Orientalia, or Contributions to the 

 knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental 

 Zoological Region. Part IX. 



The Hymenoptera of the Khasia Hills. Part H. 

 Section i. 



By P. Cameron. 



\Co7n?nHtiicated by J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S.] 



Received October lolh, read October 31st, i8gg. 



MUTILLID^. 



The Khasia MiitillidcB in the collection are all males, 

 the native collectors apparently gathering only winged 

 insects. 



A. The group of M. sexmaculata. Large species, 

 black, with ferruginous abdomen, and with the 

 scutellum gibbous; the abdominal segments 

 fringed with rufous hair. 



MUTILLA EMPIRICA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; dense a/bo-pilosa, vertice mesonotoque longe 

 nigro-pilosis ; abdojiiine fernigiiieo, bast apiceque nigris ; 

 alls violaceis ^ 



Long. 18 mm. 



Scape of antennae thickly covered with long white 

 hair, grooved beneath; the flagellum opaque, covered 

 with a microscopic pile. The front and vertex covered 



A 



October gfli, igoo. 



