XVI. DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE MALE 

 MUTIIvLIDS FROM INDIA. 



By G. R. DuTT, B.A., Assistant to the Imperial Entomologist. 



Mutilla dives, Sm. &. 



Head, thorax and legs black, abdomen varving from ferru- 

 ginous to dark castaneous, the apical segments almost black ; the 

 joints of the fiagellum and the tarsi castaneous. 



Pubescence glittering silvery white, short and thick on the 

 face, front, posterior margin of the prothorax, and propleurae ; 

 very dense and matted on the median segment ; short and thin on 

 the scape and the basal joints of the fiagellum; on the apical 

 joints of the abdominal segments it forms transverse bands which 

 are entire on the two basal segments and abraded from the middle 

 on the third and the following segments ; long and erect hairs 

 behind the vertex, on the sides of the thorax, on the legs and the 

 basal abdominal segment. 



Head coarsely punctate, punctures visible only on the portion 

 between the eyes and the ocelli, front above the base of the an- 

 tennae raised, face between the lower portions of the inner orbits 

 and the sides of the clypeus scooped out ; the clypeus above bear- 

 ing two longitudinal keels which are blunt at the apex. 



Mesonotum above deeply punctured, punctures with atendenc}- 

 to run into longitudinal striae, the disc with a median longitudinal 

 carina above and four parallel grooves, two on each side of it, 

 those nearer to the carina running across the entire length of the 

 mesonotum and the outer ones over the posterior half only. 



Scutellum excavate at base, rising to a prominent tubercle 

 posteriorly ; median segment depressed below the surface of the 

 postscutellum, somewhat flat above, onl}' very slightly sloping 

 towards the sides from the middle, which is consequently raised a 

 little and appears like a medial longitudinal carina, apex truncate ; 

 metapleurae covered with large and shallow punctures. Abdo- 

 men above shining, sparsely punctured, punctures getting closer 

 laterally. 



Wings dark fuscous with a purple effulgence, basal third clear 

 hyaline ; there is a faint white streak in the first cubital, a sharper 

 one in the second cubital, and a spot in the second discoidal cell 

 of the forewing. 



Length 12 — 15 mm. Expanse 18 — 23 mm. 



Described from 10 specimens. 



Hab. Punjab, Lyallpur {G. R. Dutt and T. B. Fletcher) ; 

 Bihar, Chapra {Mackenzie). 



