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the basal two segments covered, but not closel\% witli large 

 deep punctures ; the p^'gidium is closely punctured, witli 

 a smooth line down the middle ; the ventral keel is 

 straight ; the hypopygium is closely punctured, with a 

 narrow transverse space behind the middle. 



Comes into Bingham's " Section V". (p. 9)" and forms a 

 new group ; "Abdominal segments 2 and 3 red," alter 

 his ii^. 



C. The group of M. lepcha. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen black, thickly covered witli pale 

 fulvous hair. 



MUTILLA LEPCHA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra, dense fulvo-hirta ; a/is fusco-violaceis ; basi 

 fulvo ; tegnlis testaccis. $ . 



Long, fere 16 mm. 



Antennae short, thick ; the last joint distinctly tapering 

 towards the apex ; the scape covered with long white 

 hair ; the base of the flagellum thickly covered with short, 

 stiff, pale pubescence ; the apical joints with a pale pile. 

 The front and vertex bearing all over stout, deep, round 

 punctures ; the vertex is sparsely, the front thickl)- 

 covered with fulvous hair ; the face and clypeus thickly 

 with longer, paler fulvous hair. Mandibles rugose at the 

 base, and covered there with long fulvous hair. Thorax 

 entirely black ; thickly covered with bright fulvous hair, 

 which is especially thick on the pronotum, the middle of 

 the mesopleurai and the median segment. Mesonotum 

 rugosely punctured, the punctures running into reticula- 

 tions ; down the middle are two, more or less clearly 

 defined, furrows. Metanotum closely reticulated, thickly 

 covered with bright fulvous pubescence, which is sparser 



