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punctured ; its basal teeth are stout ; the ventral keel is 

 large ; the basal half roundly depressed ; the apex pro- 

 jects more and is depressed in the middle ; its apical part 

 is longer and projects more than the basal. The pygidium 

 is strongly punctured, except in the middle, which is 

 smooth and shining ; its apex is depressed and more or 

 less rufous. 



MUTILLA POESIA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra, proiioto, scutello seginciitoque viediali rujis; alis 

 fiisco-Jiyalinis, nervis nigris. $ . 



Long. 7 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore {RotJiney). 



In Bingham's arrangement (p. 10) under C this species 

 might form a new " Section c. : Thorax anteriorly and 

 posteriorly red." 



Scape of antenna; thickly covered with long white 

 hair ; the flagellum thickly with pale down ; stout ; the 

 third joint shorter than the fourth. Head black ; if any- 

 thing, narrower than the thorax ; the front broadly and 

 distinctly furrowed down the middle, strongly and closely 

 punctured, and thickly covered with white hair; the ©cellar 

 region raised, the raised part extending behind to the 

 occiput and obscurely punctured ; the sides of the 

 vertex strongly punctured. Occiput sharply margined. 

 Pro- and meso-notum shining, strongly punctured ; the 

 pronotum red above, except on the outer edges behind 

 and the base laterally ; it is thickly covered with longish 

 white hair. Mesonotum shining, strongly and deeply 

 punctured; the furrows obsolete. Scutellum rufous, strongly 

 and deeply punctured and covered with long pale hairs. 

 Metathorax entirely rufous ; the median segment strongly 

 reticulated ; the basal central area is as long as it is wide ; 

 the sides straight ; the apex triangular ; the keels issuing 



