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margin of the petiole and following two segments silvery white ; 

 wings dark fuscous with a purple effulgence. 



Hah. Bhamo, Upper Burma ; Karen Hills. S • Lenyth 12-14 ; 

 S7 mm. 



118. Mutilla rufo-dorsata, Cam. Mem. Manch. L.Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



(S . Head, pronotum in front, the median segment above, and 

 basal segment of abdomen densely pubescent ; head and thorax 

 closely and rather coarsely, and abdomen more finely punctured ; 

 median segment short, posteriorly and laterally truncate; the inner 

 orbits of the eyes above notched, making the eyes almost reniforra ; 

 head broad, nearly transverse posteriorly. Black, the pubescence 

 hoary white ; the raesoiiotum and seutellum dull dark red ; the 

 abdomen obscurely dark blue ; wings fuscous, hyaline at base, 

 nervures dark brown, tegulae black. 



Hab. North-West Provinces. c? • Length 13 ; exp. 24 mm. 

 Type in coll. Eothney. 



119. Mutilla yerburyi. 



Mutilla verburghi *, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 pp. 123, 135. 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen closely and not veiy coarsely 

 punctured, pubescent : the mesonotum with two abbreviated longi- 

 tudinal parallel grooves; median segment short, rounded posteriorly 

 and coarsely reticulate ; abdomen with the 1st segment narrowed 

 and petiolate at base and slightly constricted at apex. Metallic 

 blue, the pubescence white ; the antennae and tarei fuscous black ; 

 wings hyaline, nervures brown, tegulte blue. 



Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon. ^ • Length 11 ; e.vp. 18 mm. 



120. Mutilla pedunculata, A'%, Si/mb. Phys., Ins. dec. l,no. 24, pi. 5, 



fig. 10 ; Smith, Cat. iii, p. 12. 



S . Head sparsely and finely, thorax and basal two segments of 

 the abdomen more closely and coarselv punctured, the apical seg- 

 ments smooth, with line long soft pubescence ; the antennse long, 

 filiform ; tlie vertex raised, with a deep short furrow behind each 

 posterior ocellus; mesonotum with two parallel longitudinal grooves ; 

 median segment rounded posteriorly, rather coarsely reticulate ; 

 the basal segment of the abdomen at base narrowed into a petiole, 

 its apical margin slightly constricted. Head, thorax, and basal 

 segment of a1)(lomen light brownish red, antennae and legs pale 

 testaceous red. 2nd and following segments of the abdomen black, 

 pubescence whitish ; wings hyaline, the apex of the fore wing light 

 fuscous, nervures pale testaceous, tegulae red. 



Hah. Arabia; Egypt ; Western India; Ceylon. J- Length \0 -, 

 exp. 11 mm. 



* Owing to a misapprehension. I fancy, Mr. Cameron has misspelt Col. 

 Yerbury's name. I restore the true spelling. 



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