20 Cameron, Hjnncnoptcra Orientalia. 



and longer on the apical half. Propleunu smooth ; the 

 top at the base with some large, deep punctures. Meso- 

 plcune strongly punctured, the punctures hidden by the 

 hair ; the base and apex smooth. Metapleuraj smooth ; the 

 apex with large, moderately deep reticulations ; the lower 

 side at the base with deep, not very large, punctures. 

 Legs black ; the calcaria and spines pale ; the pubescence 

 pale fulvous. Abdomen black ; the petiole covered all 

 over with long, pale fulvous hair ; the second segment is 

 very shining, sparsely punctured ; its apex narrowly and 

 the third, fourth, and fifth segments broadly and thickly 

 covered with fulvous pubescence ; the pubescence on the 

 apical segments is long and black. Wings fulvo- 

 hyaline at the base ; the apex from the first transverse 

 cubital nervure, smoky and with a violaceous hue ; the 

 apical nervures are pale, the lower ones indistinct. 



Comes into Bingham's "Section A, b, b^. Head rounded, 

 not sloping backwards, punctured," but may be known 

 from M. discrcta Cam., the representative of that section, 

 by the tegulae not being black and by the fulvous, not 

 white, pubescence. 



D. The Group of M. khasiana. Species with 

 the thorax red wholly or in part ; the abdomen 

 thickly banded with white or pale fulvous hair. 



MUTILLA KHASIANA, sp. nov. 



Nigra, tJioracc riifo ; alis fuscis, fere violaceis, nervis 

 fuscis. $ . 



Long. 15 mm. 



Antennse stout, distinctly tapering towards the apex ; 

 the scape thickl}' covered with long white hair ; the 

 flagellum with a pale pile ; the tubercles are rufous. 



