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MUTILLID^, 



Head coarsely rugosely punctured ; the hairs fulvous. Eyes large, 

 oblong, reachmg quite close to the top of the head, whicli is slightly 

 convex. Antennal tubercles red, shining, finely striated. Antennae 

 inclining to piceous beneath towards the base; the third joint 

 twice the length of the fourth ; the second and third joint siibequal. 

 Thoi-ax bluntly rounded at base and apex, twice the length of head, 

 more strongly punctured than the head ; the pleurae punctured 

 except at the apex ; the sides of the thorax above rough, almost 

 straight ; pygidium longitudinally striated ; the sides fringed with 

 long fulvous hair ; apical ventral segment slightly fringed with 

 fulvous hair ; the basal segment with large deep punctures ; the 

 others with the punctures much smaller. Legs covered thickly with 

 long pale fulvous hairs, rufo-fulvous on the tarsi ; the calcaria ; 

 the tibial spines four, pale. 



"■ Hab. Trincomali ; Ceylon. 2- Length 11 mm." 



*46. Mutilla serratula, Cam. Mem. Munch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 pp. 11^2, 133, pi. i, fig. 12. 



2 . " Black ; the thorax red ; the scape and legs pale rufo- 

 testaceous ; the apex of second abdominal segment with a pale 

 fulvous band (dilated in the middle). Head as wide as the thorax, 

 coarsely punctured ; the antennal tubercles impunctate, pale testa- 

 ceous, as well as the clypeus ; mandibles reddish, the apices piceous 

 black ; eyes large, oval, reaching close to the top of the head. The 

 third joint of antennae about one-half longer than the fourth. The 

 sides of the thorax coarsely irregularly serrate, contracted in the 

 middle, closely and coarsely longitudinally punctured ; the apex of 

 median segment above A-shaped ; coarsely serrated ; the acute 

 apex terminating in a spine. The sides of the median segment 

 serrate ; the pleurae impunctate. First abdominal segment not 

 dilated ; the apical pale testaceous, impunctate ; the apical ventral 

 segments fringed with pale fulvous hairs. Tibiae and tarsi 

 sparingly covered with testaceous hairs ; the apices of femora 

 fuscous. 



" Hab. Poona. 5 . Length 5 mm." 



47. Mutilla dissimulanda, Mac/r. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. (2») xii, 1892, 

 p.219, ?. 



5 . Head in front and on the vertex very coarsely rugose, 

 cribrate and reticulate ; thorax minutely reticulate ; the plate ot 

 the scutellum M'ide, scai'cely projecting ; the margins and angles 

 of the metathorax above with ])rojecting papillae, its posterior 

 portion longitudinally striate with smaller projecting papillse ; 

 pleurae smooth and shining ; the 1st abdominal segment above 

 minutely punctured and aciculate, the ventral carina distinct ; the 

 2nd, 4th, and 5th segments above pubescent, the first of these on 

 the ventral side shining, coarsely and densely punctured, the 

 remainder minutely transversely striate beneath, their apical 



