yo Cameron, Ilynie^iopteya Oricntalia. 



base ; the ejjipygium is strongly and deeply punctured 

 and covered with blackish hair. 



Belongs to Bingham's "Section C," and comes near to 

 M . provida Cam. The two parapsidal furrows are wide and 

 deep ; the scutellum is flat, rounded, and strongly 

 punctured ; the median segment has a gradually rounded 

 slope and is coarsely reticulated all over ; the central 

 basal reticulation is longer than it is broad, its base squarely 

 dilated, the apex rounded. The tegula: are dull rufous, 

 paler behind. 



MUTILLA OGLANA, sp. npv. 



Nigra ; abdoinuie ferrnginco, apice tiigro ; alis Jiiscis, 

 basi fere hyalijiis. 6. 



Long. II — 12 mm. 



Nab. Ceylon ( Yerbiiry). 



Scape above thickly covered with long silvery hair ; 

 the flagellum with a fuscous down ; the third joint is 

 distinctl}' longer than the fourth. Front and vertex 

 strongly, but not closely, punctured ; the front thickly 

 covered with silvery pubescence, intermixed with long 

 fuscous hair ; the vertex sparsely covered with long fuscous 

 hair; between theantenn;e and the e}-es is a thick patch of 

 depressed silvery pubescence. Clypeus carinate in the 

 middle, smooth and shining. Pronotum rugosel)- punc- 

 tured, the base of the propleur;u with stout keels, which 

 reach to shortl}' beyond the middle. Mesonotum deeply 

 rugosely punctured and reticulated ; the punctures larger 

 towards the ape.x ; the furrows deep; the hair thick, black. 

 Scutellum flattish above ; rugosely punctured; its middle 

 smooth and shining ; post-scutellum finely rugose in the 

 middle. Median segment reticulated, covered with long 

 white hair ; the central area wide, bluntly rounded at the 

 apex ; the base dilated ; the apex has a rounded slope. 



