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margins punctured ; the anal segment minutely longitudinally 

 striate, its apex emarginate ; legs sparsely pubescent. Black ; 

 the mandibles in the middle, the scape of the antennae at base and 

 apex, the thorax, trochanters, and basal half of the femora rufo- 

 ferruginous ; abdomen opaque, sparsely clothed with black pubes- 

 cence, dense on the 2nd, 4th, and 5th segments above ; the 2nd 

 segment has on its apical margin a narrow, and the 3rd segment 

 a wide transverse band of sill^y \\hite pubescence ; the margins of 

 the 3rd, 4th, and 5th venti-al segments ciliated with silvery hairs ; 

 the legs sparsely clothed with yellowish pile, the tarsal spines rufo- 

 testaceous. 



Hab. Karen Hills, Burma. 5 • Length 11 mm. 



48. Mutilla rotlineyi, Catn. Mem. Manck. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



$ . Head and thorax coarsely and closely, and the abdomen 

 finely and closely punctured, the punctures on the head and thorax 

 running into longitudinal strife; head subquadrate, as wide as the 

 thorax ; eyes very prominent, oval, slightly laterally compressed ; 

 collar much raised, on a level with the head and thorax ; thorax 

 from above rectangular, the sides set with sharp short spines, 

 excavated below and smooth ; the median segment with a single 

 sharp central spine posteriorly ; abdomen as long as the head and 

 thorax, the basal segment constricted at its posterior margin. 

 Head in front and on the vertex, and the thorax above dark red ; 

 the cheeks behind the eyes, the sides of the thorax, legs and 

 abdomen black, the last with black pubescence and five circular 

 pubescent white spots— one at the base above the 1st, two lateral 

 and one central at the posterior margin of the 2nd, and one in the 

 middle of the posterior margin of the 4th segment. 



c^" . Closely resembles the $ , but the median segment is larger 

 proportionally and more clearly marked off from the thorax, the 

 lateral and posterior spines are smaller, and the sides of the thorax 

 are more deeply excavated. Colour almost precisely similar, but 

 the red is more diffused over the head, the pleurae are covered 

 with a thin sericeous silvery pile, and there are two additional 

 spots on the abdomen, one in the middle of the apical margin of 

 the 5th, the other on the 6th segment ; wings absent (evidently 

 accidentally lost) in the type and only specimen known. 



Hah. Barrackpore. Bengal. $ . Length 8 mm. S . Length 

 9 mm. Types in coll. Eothney. 



A very distinct species ; the 6 is M. contracta, Cam. 



49. Mutilla pandora, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1858, p. 85, § ; Maffr. 

 A7in. M»s. Civ. Gen. (2") xii, 1892, p. 220. 



2 . Head anteriorly minutely and closely striate, thorax finely 

 and closely punctured, abdomen densely pubescent; head very 

 little wider than the thorax ; eyes ovate, the outer orbits straighter 



