68 Cameron, Hyvicnoptera Orioitalia. 



from the lateral angles arc stouter than the others ; the 

 area is depressed ; the apex has an abrupt oblique slope. 

 The base of the propleura; punctured, the rest stoutly 

 striated. Mesopleura; strongly and closely punctured, 

 shining and covered with long white hair. Metapleunne 

 roundly projecting, strongl}' and deeply punctured, and 

 covered with long white hair. Legs thickly covered with 

 white hair ; the calcaria and tarsal spines pale. Wings 

 fusco-hyaline, short, the radial nervure straight and oblique 

 at the base; the apex roundl}- curved ; the second cubital 

 cellule is irregular, much narrowed at the top : five-angled, 

 distinctly angled in the middle below ; the first transverse 

 cubital nervure is straight and sharpl\- oblique, the second 

 is broadh' and roundly cur\-ed ; the third is faint and is 

 angled shortly above the middle. Abdomen deep black ; 

 closely and strongly punctured ; thickly covered with 

 white hairs ; the basal three segments with a fringe of 

 white hair on their apices. Pygidium strongly and deeply 

 punctured. The basal ventral segment strongly punctured, 

 the middle smooth ; the hypopygium closely punctured. 



MUTILLA LUDOVICA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra, protJioracc mesoiiotoqiic 7'iifis ; flagcllo anten- 

 nanun suhtus brunneo ; abdominis seguicntis albo-fasciatis ; 

 alts hyalinis, ner'vis nigro-fuscis. $ . 



Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore (Ivot/iney). 



Scape of antenn;t black ; hollowed beneath, the sides 

 sharply keeled ; the flagellum brownish, black above ; the 

 third and fourth joints are almost equal in length. Head 

 broad, not much developed behind the eyes, which are 

 large. Vertex deeply, but not closely, punctured, shining ; 

 the ocellar region raised, depressed in the middle ; the 



