34 Cameron, Hymcjioptera Oricntalia. 



MUTILLA TIRHOOTENSIS, Sp. 710V. 



Nigra, vertice. late thoraccquc supra rufis ; abdoinine 

 argentco -octo -macula to ; pedibus iiigris, dense aj-genteo- 

 pilosis. 9 ■ 



Long. 10 mm. 



Hab. Tirhoot, Bengal (Rothney). 



Belongs to Bingham's " Section B : head black, varie- 

 gated with red or ferruginous ; thorax red." 



Scape of antennffi thickly covered with pale fulvous 

 hair; the flagellum thickly with pale pubescence. Head 

 developed more than the length of the eyes behind them, 

 rugosely punctured, the punctures round, large, dee[) ; the 

 front and vertex sparsely covered with long, black and 

 pale hairs ; between and below the antennae is a thick 

 mass of long, pale fulvous hair. Mandibles rufous in the 

 middle ; the base covered with long pale hair. In the 

 centre of the vertex is a large rufous spot. Thorax red, 

 the lower part of the pleur.-e and the breast black ; above, 

 irregularly and deeply reticulated all over; the reticula- 

 tions large and deep, and with thick walls ; the apex has an 

 oblique slope, is reticulated only on the top and sides, the 

 rest smooth and with a keel in the middle. Fro- and 

 meso-pleurai black ; the propleurai reticulated above at 

 the top ; the lower half of the mesopleurae thickly covered 

 with depressed silvery pubescence ; metapleurii^ rufous, 

 reticulated. Legs black, thickly covered with white hair. 

 Abdomen not much longer than the head and thorax 

 united ; black ; the basal segment thickly covered with 

 long white hair ; on the centre of the second segment are 

 two oval, dark silvery marks; there are two large square 

 ones, clearly separated, on the third ; the fourth and fifth 

 thickly covered with long, silvery pubescence, and divided 

 into two by a narrow division, Fygidium smooth and bare 

 in the middle, the sides thickly covered with long black 

 hairs; the ventral surface covered with loncj black hairs. 



