52 Cameron, Hymenoptcra Oricntalia. 



Scutellum p_\-ramiclal ; its top and base in the middle 

 smooth, shinint^, {glabrous ; the rest strons^ly rugosel}' 

 punctured and thickly covered with long black hair. The 

 median segment is narrowed at the base, is coarsely reticu- 

 lated, and is thick!}- covered with long black hair ; the 

 central area reaches to the top of the oblique apex ; is 

 widest at the base ; the bordering keel is turned up at its 

 apex ; the apex of the segment has an obliquely rounded 

 slope, and is coarsely and stoutly reticulated. Mcsopleura^ 

 coarsely and closely punctured, thickh' covered with 

 black hair, largeh' tuberculate, through roundly bulging 

 out at the top and bottom, there being a depression 

 between the upper and lower portions. Mesosternum 

 closely and strongly punctured, except at the base which 

 is aciculated. Legs thickly covered with black hair ; the 

 hair on the tarsi rufous, and the)- also bear a fulvous 

 pubescence. Wings dark violaceous, except for some 

 small hyaline streaks in the discoidal and cubital cellules; 

 the second cubital cellule at the top is slightly longer than 

 the third. Abdomen ferruginous ; the petiole and the 

 apical segment, except at the base, black ; the petiole is 

 coarsely and deeply punctured, and covered with long 

 black hair ; the other segments are thickly fringed with 

 orange hair ; the hair on the black apical part of the last 

 segment is black. The keel on the lower side of the 

 petiole projects at its apex in a large tooth, which is 

 rounded at the point and broader at the base ; the apical 

 ventral segment has an oblique, stout keel bordering the 

 sides ; the penultimate segment has a similar, but some- 

 what larger, keel on its apical half 



MUTILLA CRESSIDA, sp. 710V. 

 Nigra, capitc tJioraceque dense iiigro-hirsutis ; abdoniine 

 fcrrugineo, basi apiccqiie nigris ; a//s violaccis. $ . 



