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punctured, except in tlic middle ; it is covered with \o\v^ hair, 

 that on the apex is lonii^cr and paler. Post-scutellum 

 aciculated. Median sei^ment reticulated ; at the base 

 thickly covered with white pubescence ; the basal third of 

 the central area is widened ; the lateral keels roundly 

 curved ; the apex of the segment is strongly reticulated. 

 On the propleurai are seven stout, distinctly separated 

 striiii ; the second is indistinct, the middle one not half 

 the length of the others. Wings uniformly dark fusco- 

 violaceous ; the second cubital cellule at the top is shortly, 

 but distinctly, longer than the third ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is received near the base of the apical fourth; the 

 second near the base of the apical third. Legs thickly 

 covered with white hair ; the calcaria and spines pale. 

 Abdomen black ; the apex of the petiole, the second, 

 third, and the fourth segments, ferruginous ; the middle 

 segments fringed with fulvous hair ; on the pygidium in 

 the middle is a smooth, slightly raised part ; the apex is 

 smooth and depressed in the middle ; the hypopygium is 

 keeled laterally at the apex. 



In Bingham's table (p. 9) this species forms a new 

 Section : " Second to fourth segments red." 



MUTILLA MACULICORNIS, Sp. HOV. 



Nigra, dense albo-pilosa ; antennis rnfo-niaculatis ; 

 abdorniiie fcrrugineo, apice nigro ; nlis fusco-violaceis, 

 basi hyali)iis. ^ . 



Long. 13 mm. 



Hub. Barrackpore {Rothncy). 



Antenna:^ black ; the base and apex of the scape and 

 the base of the flagellum rufous ; the apical joints of the 

 flagellum brownish beneath ; the scape shining, punctured, 

 sparsely covered with white hair ; the flagellum opaque, 

 covered with a white microscopic down ; the third joint is 



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