74 Cameron, Ilyvienoptera Oricntalia. 



\ox\^ f^olden hair ; the hair on the apical segments is 

 black ; the middle of the last segment is glabrous and 

 smooth. The keel on the under side of the petiole is 

 straight, rounded at the base and apex. 



MUTILLA ERXIA, Sp. JIOV. 



Nigra, npicc pctioli abdoniinisqiie segmentis 2 — 4 

 ferrugiiicis ; victanoto dense argctitco-piloso ; alls fiisco- 

 violaccis, basi hyalinis. ^ . 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore {Rothney). 



Scape sparsely covered with long fuscous hair ; the 

 flagellum with a pale down ; the third and fourth joints 

 are of equal length. Head thickh- covered with silvery 

 pubescence ; the front and vertex also with long silvery 

 hair, most thickly on the front ; the vertex shining, strongly, 

 but not closely, punctured ; the ocellar region raised. 

 Clypeus smooth at the apex, the rest minutel}' transversely 

 striated ; the apex has the sides oblique ; the middle 

 slightly waved. Mandibles thickly covered with long 

 fulvous and silvery hair ; their middle rufous. Pronotum 

 closely and strongly punctured, and thickly covered with 

 long fuscous pubescence. Mesonotum shining, sparsely 

 covered with stiff fuscous hairs ; strongly, but not closel}-, 

 punctured ; the central furrows are wide and deep ; the 

 lateral narrower and not so well marked. Scutellum 

 rounded, not much raised above the level of the meso- 

 notum, coarsely and deeph' punctured, except in the 

 middle which is smooth, shining and glabrous, the sides 

 are sparsely covered with long black hairs. Median 

 segment thickly covered with depressed silvery pubescence, 

 which almost hides the reticulations ; the central basal area 

 has the basal third wide, with the sides straight ; from 

 there it becomes narrowed ; the sides of the segment are 



