28 Cameron, Hymcnoptera Orientalia. 



MUTILLA REDACT A, Sp. nov. 



Nigra, mesonoto abdouiinequc subtiis rujis, abdominis 

 segmento 2-0 ^-viaciilato. ? . 



Long. 8 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore {RotJiney). 



Antennci; .stout, black, narrowed towards the base and 

 apex of the flagellum ; the third joint about twice the 

 length of the fourth. Head, if anything, wider than the 

 thorax; the front and vertex shining, closely and strongly 

 punctured ; the mandibles broadly rufous towards the 

 apex. Thorax black ; above (including the apex) rufous, 

 except round the edges, which are black ; strongly 

 rugosely punctured, the scutellar tubercles large, smooth ; 

 the ape.x has an oblique slope and is reticulated above ; 

 the uj)per edge irregularly dentate ; the base of the thorax 

 is distinctly rounded ; the apex is more transverse. Legs 

 black ; the apices of the tarsi inclining to piceous ; the 

 tibial spines black. Abdomen black ; the second and 

 following ventral segments rufous, fringed with white hair ; 

 the ventral keel is deeply incised in the middle ; the base 

 has a rounded, the apex an oblique slope. The petiole bears 

 long fulvous hairs ; near the base of the second segment 

 are two oblong white marks, on the ape.x two smaller 

 roundish ones ; on the second segment two square ones, 

 which are larger than the marks on the apex of the second; 

 the pygidium is irregularly longitudinally striated. 



Looks like a miniature M. scxiuaculata. [As the fact 

 is not mentioned by Col. Bingham, it may be pointed out 

 that in M. sexiiiaadata there is, in all the examples I have 

 seen, a small rufous mark on the vertex, and that the 

 mesonotum is covered with stiff golden hairs ; the ventral 

 surface of the abdomen too is more or less rufous.] 



Note. — In Ci)l. Bingham's table on p. 6 there is an error which may 

 mislead. He states that the four marks on the abdomen of J/, sexinaculata 

 are on the first segment, whereas they are on the second ; the same mistake is 

 repeated in the description on p. 25. 



