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to the clypeus, the depression and the clypeus smootli and shining 

 and well below the plane of the front above the antennte ; thorax 

 coarsely and closely punctured aud densely pubescent; the scutellum 

 with the sides raised obliquely and forming a tubercle at the apex ; 

 median segment above wide, Hat, transversely truncate posteriorly, 

 the sides emargiuate ; abdomen coarsely punctured, the ajjical 

 margins of all the segments above and of the apical six beneath 

 M ith transverse denselj^ pubescent bands. Black, the base of the 

 mandibles, the clypeus, the scape of the antenna3, tegulae of the 

 wings, the legs, and the basal segment of the abdomen chestnut- 

 red, the pubescence rich chrome-yellow, on the scutellum and 

 apical two abdominal segments rufo-fuscous ; wings clear hyaline 

 at base, fuscous suffused with purplish beyond the basal uervure 

 in the fore, and the anal cell in the hind wing. 



Hah. India (Smith), c? . Lsnrith 17 ; exp. 28 mm. 



95. Mutilla SChlettereri, Maqr. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. (2") xii, 1892, 



p. 230, c^. 



S . Head and front longitudinally finely striate, with a narrow- 

 impressed line from the anterior ocellus to 

 betvveen the bases of the antenna); thorax 

 rugosely punctured, the punctures on the 

 scutellum tine and delicate ; the median 

 segment rounded posteriorly, with a steep 

 slope, narrowed towards the apex and 

 delicately reticulate ; abdomen very finely 

 punctured. Black, covered with a thin, 

 short, erect, silvery pubesence, the posterior 

 half, sometimes the whole, of the 1st 

 abdominal segment and the 2nd and 3rd 

 \^nlP'.~.-"'T^^% segments red, the pubescence forming 



transverse, somewhat lU-detined bands on the 

 apical margins of the 4th and 5th segments above ; wings light 

 fusco-hyaline, clearer tow ards the base ; the tegula? very large, 

 lamellar, and testaceous along their outer margins. 



Bah. Karen Hills, Burma ; «ikhim, lOOO ft. 6 . Length 11-12 ; 

 eaj). 24 mm. A \ery distinct species. 



96. Mutilla stephani, Mar/r. Anji. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2°) xii, 18'J2, 



p. 227, d. 



(S . Head, the vertex minutely rugose punctate ; mesonotum 

 above coarsely and deeply punctured, bearing four longitudinal, 

 parallel, more or less distinctly marked and broad lines, with also 

 a medial carina ; median segment widely reticulate, with a central 

 longitudinal furrow^ at base ; abdominal segments sparsely and 

 minutely punctured, the basal three shining, the second bearing a 

 prominent transversely compressed gibbosity above, the ventral 

 carina on the basal segment barely projecting, sublinear ; the 



