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roughly transversely striated at the base ; the upper part 

 strongly deeply striated — reticulated — punctured ; the apical 

 slope widely, moderately deeply reticulated. Pleurœ smooth, 

 the base and apex obscurely punctured. The base of the thorax 

 is rounded, the apex almost transverse, the sides of the meta- 

 notum bear, in the centre, 5 longish, sharply pointed teeth, 

 the lower is smaller than the others ; the upper part is irre- 

 gularly tuberculated or toothed. Ventral tooth roundly incised 

 in the middle, the apex of the projection longer than the 

 base. Pygidium striated longitudinally in the middle. 



This species is very similar to Af. <ji!<pa Cam. from Sara- 

 wak ; that is a larger and stouter species ; the base of the 

 thorax projects more in the middle ; the colour is red, not 

 black and is not transversely striated ; there is no incision 

 on the ventral keel, which is straight, the apex of metanotum 

 is more coarsely, closely, vertically punctured, not reticulated, 

 the head is sligthly narrower compared with the thorax, the 

 temples are not quite so obliquely narrowed and more roun- 

 ded ; and the occiput is more clearly transverse. 



Mutilla Urania Sm. 



I may take this opportunity of clearing up the confusion 

 in which this species appears to rest. It was described from 

 Sarawak, Borneo by Smith in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1857, p. 83, 

 the type being stated to have the head red like the thorax. 

 The head, however, may be black, and it is this black headed 

 form which I described in Manchr. Memoirs, (4) V, 1892 

 p. 117, 132; cf Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, I, p. 21; as 

 AL buddha. The head varies from black to red in colouration ; 

 and although M. buddha differs from the typical itrania in 

 the head not being red, yet, as the two forms agree otherwise 

 in structure and colouration, I have no doubt in my mind of 

 their being forms of the same species. My species, henceforth, 

 may be called M. ura/na Sm. race buddha Cam. 



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