8 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



and more oblique than it is at the apex ; the third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments are thickly covered on the apical 

 half with pale fulvous hair ; the hair on the apex of the 

 second segment and on the apical ones is black ; the 

 pygidium has a broad, smooth space on the middle of 

 the apical half, this part being keeled down the middle. 



MUTILLA LSORA, sp. nov. 



Nigra, abdominis diniidio basali rufo, alisfusco-violaccis, 

 ncrvis testaceis ; tcgulis tcstaccis. $ . 



Long. 14 mm. 



Comes nearest to M. schlettct'cri from Burma and 

 Sikhim, with which it agrees in coloration and in having 

 the front and vertex striated, but may be known from it 

 by having the median segment coarsely, not delicately, 

 reticulated ; b\' the punctures on the scutellum not being 

 "fine and delicate" ; and by the teguke being entirely tes- 

 taceous, not testaceous along their outer margin onl}^ 



The antennas distinctly tapering towards the apex ; 

 the scape covered with long white hair ; the flagellum 

 densely with short stiff pubescence. The front and vertex 

 sharply and distinctly striated ; in front of the anterior 

 ocellus is a deep, somewhat triangular, depression ; the 

 outer orbits are strongly striated ; the stria: intermixed 

 with punctures ; clypeus smooth, shining ; indistinctly 

 keeled in the middle. The front is covered with long 

 fulvous, the clypeus with long silvery, hair ; the vertex 

 more sparsely with longer, pale fuscous hair. Mandibles 

 rufous in the middle. Thorax black ; the pro- and meso- 

 thorax thickly covered with fuscous hair ; the hinder edge 

 of the pronotum bears a thick belt of fulvous pubescence. 

 Mesonotum strongly and deeply punctured ; the parapsidal 

 furrows deep, distinct, narrowed at the base. Scutellum 



