30 Cameron, Hymenoptera Oricntalia. 



petiole has the apex closely punctured and fringed with 

 black hair ; the rest bears scattered punctures. On the 

 base of the second segment are two somewhat oval silvery 

 marks ; the third and fourth segments bear broad bands 

 of silvery pubescence on the sides ; the pygidium is finely 

 rugose, and fringed at the sides with long white hair. The 

 ventral keel is rufous, tridentate ; the basal keel triangular, 

 the others more rounded. 



MUTILLA MITHILA, Sp. llOV. 



Long. 7 — 8 mm. 



Agrees in coloration, markings, and form with 

 M. agelia, but is smaller, and may be readily known from 

 it by the ventral keel being straight throughout; the apex 

 of the petiole is fringed with long white hair ; the pygi- 

 dium is more distinctly longitudinally striated, and smooth 

 and [jiceous at the apex, and the antenn;e are entirely 

 black. 



Antennai stout, the scape bearing long white hair ; 

 theflagellum thickly covered with a pale clown, and stout; 

 the third joint about one-third longer than the fourth. 

 Head not much wider than the base of the thorax ; the 

 front and vertex rugosely longitudinally punctured, 

 sparsely covered with long fuscous hair ; the tubercles 

 ferruginous. Mandibles broadly rufous on the base ; the 

 palpi dark testaceous. Thorax not cjuite twice the length 

 of the head ; ferruginous ; the mesonotum rugosely punc- 

 tured, covered with blackish hairs ; the apex with an 

 oblique slope, and broadly rounded above ; the upper half 

 of the slope reticulated, running below into stria:, which are 

 wide apart; the lower half is neither punctured nor striated, 

 and is covered with long white hair. Pleura: smooth and 

 shining ; the apex of the meta- irregularly reticulated ; 

 they are covered with a white ]jile. Legs thickly covered 



