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angularly, obliquely depressed at the base and apex ; the 

 middle keel is broad, straight. 



Comes near to M. triniaculatn Cam. 



MUTILL.'X EDOLATA, Sp. IWV. 



Rufa, abdoininc nigro, segnieiitis i — 5 vitta apicah 

 albo-sericea ornatis ; pcdilnis rnfis ; capite laevo, ?iitido, sparse 

 punctato. 9 . 



Long. 7 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon ( Yerbury'). 



Head distinctly wider than the thorax ; broader than 

 long ; behind the eyes as long as them ; smooth, shining, 

 sparsely punctured and covered sparsely with longish 

 black hair ; the antennal tubercles large, smooth and 

 shining. Mandibles rufous, their apices broadly black. 

 Antennce stout, rufous, thickly covered with a white down ; 

 the third joint narrowed, twice the length of the fourth. 

 Thorax of equal width above ; strongly, longitudinally 

 rugulose, sparsely covered with longish black hair ; the 

 apex has an oblique slope, is smooth, shining, and thickly 

 covered with long fuscous hair. Pleura; smooth and 

 shining ; the upper half of the metapleurse punctured 

 sparsely. Legs rufous, and thickly covered with fuscous 

 hair ; the tibial spines coloured like the legs. Abdomen 

 black with a faint violaceous-blue tint ; there is a small 

 square mark on the apex of the first; a large semi-circular 

 one on the second, a smaller one on the third, and a still 

 smaller one of silvery pubescence on the apex of the fourth 

 abdominal segment ; the pygidium is smooth, testaceous. 

 The sides of the petiole below are broadly rufo-testaceous. 



Agrees in size and coloration with J/, hesitata ; is 

 easily distinguished by the shorter thorax, which is not 

 twice the length of the head as it is in J/, hesitata, and by 

 the smooth front and vertex. 



