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hair. The basal ventral segment is rufous : the apical 

 half is roundly dilated. 



MUTILLA MARTIALIS, Sp. 710V. 



Long. 7 mm. $ . 



Hah. Barrackpore {Rotluiey). 



Agrees closely in size and coloration with M. dryta ; 

 differs from it in having the thorax narrower, longer and 

 more dilated behind; in the petiole being rufous beneath; 

 in its keel not being incised ; and in the coxa; being rufous. 



Antennse stout, black, thickly covered with a pale 

 pile ; the third joint is nearly twice the length of the 

 fourth ; the antennal tubercles large, rufous. Head distinctly 

 wider than the thorax, strongly and deeply punctured ; 

 on the front and vertex sparsely covered with short 

 golden hair. Mandibles broadly rufous in the middle. 

 Thorax twice the length of the head ; slightly widened at 

 the base and apex ; the pronotum shining, obscurely, finely, 

 transversely striated. Mesonotum strongly and deeply 

 rugosely punctured, and sparsely covered with long black 

 hairs ; the apex has a rounded slope, is strongly reticulated ; 

 the middle reticulations more open, running into irregular 

 longitudinal stria;. Propleurre irregularly punctured; the 

 apex of the meta- irregularly and indistinctly reticulated 

 towards the apex ; the rest smooth and shining. Legs 

 black, inclining to piceous on the femora, the coxa; rufous ; 

 the hair white ; the calcaria and tibial spines pale ; the 

 tarsal spines with a more fulvous tint. Abdomen black ; 

 the petiole rufous beneath, its keel straight ; on the second 

 segment are two oval marks, near the middle, of silvery 

 pubescence ; the third and fourth segments are broadly 

 banded laterally with similar pubescence ; the pygidium 

 is obscurely punctured at the base ; its apex smooth ; the 

 sides fringed with long pale hair. 



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