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MUTILLA SERENA, sp. nov. 

 Nigra, capitc tlioraccquc dense loiige albopilosis, abdo- 

 minis scgmentis 2 — ^ rufis ; alis fiisco-violaeeis. $ . 

 Long. 12 mm. 



Hah. Barrackporc {Rotluiey). 



Scape of aiitcnniu thickly covered with long white 

 hair ; the flagellum with a pale down. Vertex strongly 

 punctured, more sparsely at the sides of and behind the 

 ocelli ; thickly covered with long white hair ; the front is 

 not so strongly punctured and much more thickly covered 

 with longer pale hair. P'ace smooth, shining, glabrous 

 and broadly carinate in the middle. Clypeus smooth, 

 shining, depressed broadh' at the apex and behind, except 

 in the middle. Mandibles at the base thick!)' covered 

 with silvery pubescence. Pronotum coarsely reticulated ; 

 its base smooth ; propleur?e rugosely punctured ; the 

 middle with widely separated keels ; the apex smooth. 

 Mesopleuras in the middle punctured, the punctures run- 

 ning into reticulations, and thickly covered with long 

 white hair. Apex of metapleurre irregularly reticulated. 

 Mesosternum thickl}- covered with long white hair ; the 

 metasternal area shining, smooth, stoutly keeled down the 

 middle and less distinctl)- laterally. Legs thickly covered 

 with white hair; the spurs white; the tarsal spines rufous. 

 Wings uniformly violaceous ; the first cubital cellule is, at 

 the top, one-fourth longer than the second ; the second 

 transverse cubital nervure is sharply elbowed shortly 

 above the middle ; the first recurrent nervure is received 

 near the base of the apical third, the second shortly be\-ond 

 the middle. Petiole black, except at the apex, shining, 

 punctured, covered with long white hair ; the ventral keel 

 has a shallow broad curve, and is slightly more raised at 

 the apex than at the base. The middle segments are 

 covered with fulvous hair ; the fifth and sixth with white, 



