14 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



somewhat triangular, oblique tooth ; the part behind this 

 projects ; its ventral keel is stout, and is roundly depressed 

 beneath. The second secernent, except in the middle, is 

 closely punctured ; the petiole is covered with long, the 

 the second segment with shorter, pale hair ; the third 

 thickly, on the apical half, with depressed, dark fulvous 

 pubescence ; the remaining segments are covered thickly 

 with long black hair ; the pygidium is thickly covered 

 with long black hairs all over. The tegula; are black, 

 very smooth and shining, and sparsely covered with pale 

 hairs. 



Comes nearest to the Burmese M. scJilcttercri Magr., 

 and M. stcphani Magr., but is abundantly distinct. 



MUTILLA ELMIRA, Sp. 710V. 



Long. 17 mm. $. 



Comes into Bingham's "Section ^^ on p. 9 and a^. Basal 

 two abdominal segments red." From M. tinifasciata it 

 may be known by the scutellum not being " prominent, 

 raised "; by the head and thorax being thickly, not " very 

 sparingly, covered with long, soft hairs "; by the basal 

 two segments being thickly pilose, not merely " very 

 slightly pubescent." 



Antenncii stout : the scape thickly covered with long 

 pale hairs ; its apex rufous on the under side laterally : the 

 flagellum stout, thickly covered with a short, stiff, black 

 pubescence and with a pale down. Head coarsely, deeply 

 rugosely punctured, and thickly covered with silver}' hair, 

 which is thicker on the front ; below the antennae it is 

 longer. Antennal tubercles large, smooth and shining. 

 Mandibles rufous in the middle, at the base thickly 

 covered with long fulvous hair. J'ro- and meso-thorax 

 thickly covered with pale hair ; on the edge of the 



