4 Cameron, Ilymenoptera Oricnialia. 



Mesonotum shining, thickly covered with black hairs, and 

 bearing all over large deep punctures ; the two central 

 furrows arc deep. Scutellum rugosely punctured, thickly 

 covered with long black hairs ; the upper portion of the 

 middle basal part smooth, impunctate, shining ; its lower 

 three-fourths widely and deeply furrowed, the furrow 

 narrowed and rounded above. Post-scutellum finely 

 punctured in the middle, the sides rugose. Mesopleurae 

 coarsely punctured, thickly covered with long grey hair. 

 Metapleurae, except at the base, strongly reticulated. 

 Legs thickly covered with white hair ; the calcaria white, 

 the tibial spines rufous. Wings deep violaceous; the second 

 cubital cellule shorter at the top, longer at the bottom, than 

 the third ; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly 

 beyond the middle ; the second near the base of the apical 

 fourth of the cellule. Median segment thickly covered 

 with long white hair ; reticulated, the reticulations on 

 the apex smaller than on the base ; the central area broad 

 at the base, much narrowed towards the apex ; the sides 

 at the base parallel, before the middle curved ; the apex 

 is rounded ; in the middle at the base is a longitudinal 

 keel. Abdomen dark ferruginous, the basal and apical 

 segments black ; the petiole bearing large deep punctures, 

 except in the middle ; the apex is rufous and more finely 

 punctured; the ventral keel is straight, not dilated at base 

 or apex. The pygidium is covered with long black hairs, 

 except in the middle, which is smooth. 



MUTILLA PERDITA, Sp. HOV. 



Nigra, dense albo-pilosa, mcsonoto iiigro-Jiirto ; abdo- 

 minis segmentis 2-is et j-is nifis ; alls violaccis, basi fere 

 hyatinis. $ . 



Long. 22 — 23 mm. 



Scape of antenna; covered with long, pale fulvous 



