54 Cameron, Hymeyioptera Oricntalia. 



is slightly lonc^cr than the thirrl ; the recurrent nervures 

 are both received shortly bc}-ond thu middle of the cellules. 

 The abdomen is ferruginous ; the petiole is black, strongly 

 punctured, and covered with longish black hair; the ventral 

 keel at the apex ends in a large, stout, oblique tooth ; the 

 other segments are thickly fringed with ferruginous hair, 

 and are sparsely punctured ; the apical half of the pygidium 

 is black and covered with black hairs. 



MUTILLA PII.KNNA, Sp. liov. 



Nigra, abdominis scgvicntis 2 — 5 rufis ; alis fusco- 

 vtolaccis, basi hyaliiiis ; vicdio sciitelli laevo. 6 • 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore {Rotluiey). 



Scape of antennre thickly covered with white hair ; 

 the flagellum opaque. Front and vertex shining, strongl}', 

 but not very closely, punctured ; the front in the middle 

 thickly covered with long white, the sides and vertex 

 covered more sparsely with long fuscous hair. Face and 

 clypeus smooth and shining ; the cl}-peus slightl}' 

 obliquely narrowed from the middle to the apex. 

 Mandibles black, thickly covered with long, pale silvery 

 hair ; before the middle is a broad red band. Palpi dark 

 fu.scous. Pro- and meso-notum closely and stronglx- 

 punctured, and thickly covered with long, dark fuscous 

 hair. Scutellum hardly raised above the level of the 

 mesonotum, strongly and deeply punctured, except in the 

 middle, which is smooth and shining ; the apex of this 

 shining band is widely furrowed. Median segment reticu- 

 lated, the basal area is wide at the base, being there twice 

 the width of the apex ; the wide part becomes graduall}- 

 narrowed ; it is thickly covered with white pubescence, as 

 are also the areai at its base ; the apex of the segment 

 is shining, strongly closely reticulated and sparsely 



