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distinctly punctured, but not so strongly as the mesonotum ; 

 its hair longer and paler. Metanotum strongly and 

 regularly reticulated all over ; its base covered with fulvous 

 pubescence ; its basal half is rounded ; its apex has an 

 oblique slope. Propleura; impunctate, but marked with 

 four stout keels on the lower part and a narrower one in 

 the middle ; the mesopleurit strongly but not deeply 

 punctured, and thickly covered with long, pale fulvous hair; 

 the metapleuras strongly reticulated, except for a smooth 

 oblique band in the middle. Legs thicklycovered with white 

 hair; the spines and calcaria white. Wings fusco-violaccous; 

 the stigma and nervures dark testaceous ; the second cubital 

 cellule at the top is distinctly shorter than the third, at the 

 bottom about equal to it in length ; it receives the 

 recurrent nervure shortly, but distinctly, beyond the 

 middle ; the second is received at the base of the basal 

 third. Abdomen black ; the basal three segments entirely 

 ferruginous ; the second to fifth segments fringed at the 

 apex with long, pale fulvous hair ; the apical thickly with 

 black hair. Petiole stout, becoming gradually wider 

 towards the apex ; in length about half that of the 

 second ; both are rather strongly, but not closely, punc- 

 tured ; the pygidial area is strongly punctured, except in 

 the middle. The petiole beneath is strongly punctured ; 

 in the middle the keel is straight throughout ; rounded at 

 the base, oblique at the apex ; the third segment is black, 

 rufous at the base and apex. 



MUTILLA RE.SPONSARIA, Sp. IIOV. 



Nigra, abdoviinis segmentis primis trihiis late rnfo- 

 ferrugineis ; alls fninatis, bast fere Jiyalinis ; tegulis 

 iestaceis. 6 ■ 



Long. 1 1 mm. 



Head coarsely rugosely punctured ; sparsely covered 



