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apex ; the apical segment above is smooth in the middle ; 

 the sides punctured and pilose. 



MUTILLA LYRATA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra, abdominis medio ritfo ; alis fusco-violaceis. $ . 



Long. 13 mm. 



Comes into Bingham's " Section A. Thorax black, a". 

 Abdomen more or less red ; and V". Wings dark fuscous, 

 with a purple effulgence." 



AntenUcTe black ; the scape thickly covered with long 

 white hair and deeply punctured ; the flagellum black ; the 

 third joint at the apex and the fourth at the base marked 

 with brown ; as are also the apical joints, which are 

 distinctly narrowed. Head thickly covered with long, 

 glistening white hair. Front and vertex deeply rugosely 

 punctured ; the oral region smooth and shining ; the 

 mandibles black, shining, rufous near the middle ; the 

 palpi black, thickly covered with white hair. Thorax 

 entirely black ; the pronotum and mesopleuras thickly 

 covered with long white hair. Mesonotum shining, 

 uniformly covered with large deep punctures, sparsely 

 covered with black hairs ; the scutellum is similarly 

 punctured, but with the punctures closer together, and it 

 is rather thickly covered with long pale hair. Median 

 segment reticulated, the reticulations larger at the base, 

 which is thickly covered with white pubescence. The 

 propleurae coarsely punctured in the middle above ; on 

 the apex near the middle are three stout longitudinal 

 keels. Mesopleurae, broadly in the middle, punctured and 

 thickly covered with white hair ; the apex of the meta- 

 pleura; reticulated. Legs thickly covered with white hair; 

 the calcaria and tarsal spines pale. Wings fusco-violaceous; 

 the costal cellule and an oblique cloud in the first cubital 



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