6 Cameron, Hyvioioptera Oricntalia. 



black, thickly covered with white pubescence; the extreme 

 apex of the first, and the whole of the second and third 

 segments ferruginous ; the petiole coarsel}' i)unctured, 

 except at the apex ; the keel is short and stout ; beneath, 

 it is slightly and roundly curved upwards ; the second 

 segment is rather strongly, but not closely, punctured, 

 except for a somewhat triangular smooth space at the 

 side near the apex ; the pygidium coarsely punctured, 

 thickly covered with long black hair. 



B. The group of M. pandara. Species with the 

 thorax black ; the abdomen more or less rufous 

 at the base, and with the segments thickly 

 fringed with whitish hair ; the scutellum not 

 gibbous. 



MUTILLA PANDARA, Sp. 710V. 



Nigra, pctiolo scgvicntoquc 2-0 bast late rufis ; atisfusco- 

 violaceis, stiginate nervisquc fiiscis. $ . 



Long. 15 mm. 



In Bingham's arrangement comes into ''A. a. b^. Wings 

 dark fuscous, with a purple effulgence. cr. Basal two 

 abdominal segments red," which includes only J/, tmifas- 

 ciata Sm. It comes near to LI. aglaia here described ; 

 but may be known from it by the petiole being entirely 

 red ; by the base of the second segment having a distinct 

 oblique slope ; by the base of the pronotum having two 

 rows of irregular broken keels, instead of an area enclosed 

 by stout keels ; by the first recurrent nervure being received 

 in the middle, and the second distinctl}' beyond the 

 middle ; and by the mesopleura,- being much more dis- 

 tinctly punctured and reticulated. 



Scape of the antennae punctured, thickly covered 

 with long pale hair ; the lower side sharply keeled ; the 



