On the Malay Fossorial 



HYMEN01'TEI{4 and VESIMD.E 



OF THE MUSEUM OF THE 



R. ZOUL. SdC. „MIUIIA AI5T1S MAdlSTUV AT AMSTERDAM. 



BY 



P. CAMERON, (New Mills). 



Mutillidœ. 



Mutilla jacanica sp. iiov. 



Black, the thorax red ; the tarsal spines bright rufous ; 2 

 round, transverse spots close to the base of the 2"*^ abdominal 

 segment, a band on the '^''^ , narrowly interrupted in the 

 middle ; a spot, broader than long, on the sides of the 4''^ of 

 depressed, silvery, tinged with fulvous, pubescence ; the sides 

 of the pygidium thickly covered with similarly coloured, long 

 pale fulvous hair; the apices of the 2'"', 3''^ and, to a less 

 extent, the 4^'' , fringed with shorter similarly coloured hair; 

 the hair on the tarsi whitish ; the tibial spines long and 

 black ; the calcaria pale. 9 . 



Length 15 — 16 mm. 



Ardjuno. Java. (Scheepmaker leg.). 



Antennae entirely black, the flagellum densely covered with 

 a pale pile, its 1*^^ joint nearly twice the length of the 2"^ 

 Head as wide as the thorax, coarsely, longitudinally rugosely 

 punctured; above sparsely covered with black hair; the lower 

 outer orbits and malar space thickly covered with pale fulvous 



