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white hair; the upper third is rufous, the rest black. The 

 [n'O-, meso-, and base of meta-[)leur;e smooth and shining. 

 Legs black, inclining to piccous, covered with longish 

 white hair ; the tarsi lighter in colour ; the tibial spines 

 four, longish, sharp, pale testaceous. Abdomen deep 

 black ; there is a small mark on the apex of the first 

 abdominal segment, a longer, broader one, rounded 

 behind, on the apex of the second, and a smaller one on 

 the apex of the third, of silvery pubescence ; the pygidium 

 not defined ; the central segment smooth, shining, and rufo- 

 testaceous in colour ; the hypopygium is punctured, keeled 

 laterally and rufo-testaceous on the apex. 



The following species are only known in the winged 

 or male sex. In the Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist, for August 

 of the present year I have described a number of new 

 species oi Jintiiiidcc from India. 



MUTILLA FOVEISCUTIS, Sp. UOV. 



Nigra, abdoniine ferntgineo, basi apiccque iiigris ; 

 sciitcllo tiibcrailato, medio Icvvo, basi fovcato ; alis violaccis ; 

 capite thoraceque dense nigro-pilosis. $ . 



Long. 23 mm. 



Hab. Poona ( IVroughton). 



Antennas distinctly tapering towards the apex ; the 

 scape thickly covered with long white hair ; the flagellum 

 with a pale pile. The front and vertex are strongly, but 

 not closely, punctured, thickly covered with long black 

 hair ; the middle of the front thickly covered with silvery 

 pubescence ; the lower inner orbits with a broad belt of 

 silvery pubescence ; the face bare, shining ; the apex of 

 the clypeus transverse, covered with long hair ; obliquely 

 projecting. ]\Iandibles black; the base thickly covered 

 with silvery pubescence, the rest bare, smooth and 



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