12 Cameron, llymoioptera Orientalia. 



striated ; the middle more closely, iiidistinctl)', transversely 

 striated. I>c<^s thickly covered with white hair ; the cal- 

 caria pale fulvous. Wings deep violaceous, slightly paler 

 at the base ; the first and second cubital cellules arc equal 

 in length above ; the recurrent nervures are received 

 shortly be\ond the middle. The basal two segments of the 

 abdomen and the basal half of the third are rufous ; the 

 petiole is rugosely punctured ; the basal keels are stout ; 

 the ventral keel is slightly curved upwards beneath, its 

 apex is slightly more produced than the base; it is smooth 

 and shining. The petiole is covered thickly with long, 

 the second segment more sparsely with shorter, white 

 pubesccMice ; the apical half of the third segment is 

 covered thickly with pale fulvous, depressed pubescence ; 

 the hair on the apical segments is black ; the pygidium 

 is closely punctured ; in the middle on the apical half is a 

 smooth line. 



MUTILLA IIONORATA, Sp. HOT. 



Nigra, obdominis basi late rufo ; capite tJioraceque 

 retiailatis ; alls violaccis ; tcgnlis nigris. 6 . 



Long. 1 5 mm. 



Antenna; black ; the scape covered witli long fuscous 

 hair ; the flagellum thickly with a short stiff pile, which is 

 black on the basal joints, paler on the apical ; the third 

 joint is a little longer than the fourth. Head thickly 

 covered with long fuscous, the oral region with shorter 

 silvery hair ; the front coarsely reticulated ; the vertex 

 behind the ocelli coarsely punctured. Clypeus smooth 

 and shining ; its apex obliquely depressed, glabrous. 

 Mandibles at the base covered with long white hair. 

 The pronotum covered witli depressed, dark silvery 

 pubescence ; its upper part coarsely rugosely punctured ; 



