24 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



fulvous hair ; the other segments are thickly covered with 

 longish black hair. 



MUTILLA MONTANATA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra, protJiorace, inesonoto, scutello, vicsopleiirisque 

 supra rnfis ; alis fusco-violaceis ; tegiilis riifis. 6. 



Long. 16 mm. 



Antennai short, stout, distinctly tapering towards the 

 apex ; the scape covered with long pale fulvous ; the 

 flagellum more thickly with short pale pubescence. The 

 middle of the vertex is smooth ; the part behind the 

 ocellus is carinate, and with a depression on either side of 

 it ; in front is a deeper and wider furrow, which is widest 

 behind ; the lateral ocelli are placed on the sides of the 

 furrow bordering the ocellar region. The vertex is covered 

 with long fuscous hair ; the front more thickly with pale 

 fulvous hair ; the clypeus thickly with silvery hair. 

 Thorax black ; the prothorax, the mesonotum and 

 scutellum and the mesopleurcu — broadest in front — 

 immediately under the wings, rufous. Pronotum rugosely 

 punctured ; the mesonotum not quite so strongly or 

 deeply, but with the punctures running into reticulations. 

 The scutellum is similarly punctured. Median segment 

 closely and almost uniformly reticulated ; the central area 

 at the base is rounded and not much narrowed at the 

 apex. Propleura; coarsely punctured ; the apex smooth ; 

 in the hollow are four irregular keels. Mesopleur^i; closely 

 rugosely punctured, except below the hind wings, where 

 there is a large smooth space, divided into two by a 

 narrow curved keel. Metapleuraj reticulated. Legs 

 black ; calcaria pale ; the hair thick, long, and pale 

 fulvous. Abdomen with the basal two segments fringed 

 with a broad belt of pale fulvous hair ; the third segment 



