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In the Pusa collection we had a few examples of this species 

 from. Chapra in the box of unidentified Mutillids. It could not be 

 referred to any previoush'^ described species, but came very close 

 to Mutilla fumipennis, described by Bingham in the Journal of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. XII, p. ii8, pi. A, fig. 6. 

 Mr. Fletcher brought a few more specimens of it from Lyallpur in 

 August 191 1. On referring to the Pusa collection again, I was 

 struck with the fact that we had this undescribed male Mutillid 

 only from localities from which we had Mutilla dives 9 . Later 

 on in September 191 1 when I went to Lyallpur I netted this spe- 

 cies ' ' in cop ' ' with Mutilla dives ? and this settled the question 

 definitely. 



Mutilla lilliputiana, Andre. & . 



Head, thorax, legs, base of the first abdominal segment and 

 the apical two segments black, the remaining segments red ; the 

 pubescence on the front, vertex, pronotum, sides of the scutellum, 

 and the base of the median segment golden ; on the face, sides of 

 the clypeus, along the outer orbits of the eyes white, few erect 

 hairs on the mesonotum, and the scutellum brownish, erect hairs 

 forming somewhat ill-defined bands on the apical margins of the 

 basal five segments, ferruginous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen punctured, punctures on the 

 head, scutellum and abdomen fine, deep and coarse on the meso- 

 notum, large and shallow on the median segment which appears 

 consequently widely and strongly reticulate. On the clypeus a 

 very distinct tubercle is noticeable. On the posterior half of the 

 mesonotum there are two longitudinal grooves present, the second 

 abdominal segment bears a prominent transversely compressed gib- 

 bosity above, the median segment is rounded posteriorly. 



Wings fusco-violaceous, paler towards base ; a white streak is 

 visible in the first, second and third cubital cells and a spot in the 

 second discoidal cell of the forewing. 



Length 7 — 10 mm. Expanse 14 — 18 mm. 



Described from one specimen. 



Hah. Coorg, PoUibetta (T . B. Fletcher). 



Mr. Fletcher captured two males ''in cop" with M.lillipu- 

 tiana females at PoUibetta in October 1915. 



Mutilla agnata, Andre. & . 



Closely resembles M. liUiputiana, Andre, with the difference 

 that it is a bigger insect and has the pubescence on the posterior 

 margin of the pronotum short and dense and richer in colour, the 

 mesonotum bears a medial longitudinal carina in addition to the 

 parallel grooves ; the median segment is obliquely truncate, the 

 basal portion very widely and strongly reticulate, bearing two 

 parallel carinae in the middle, reaching up to the verge of the 

 truncated portion of the segment ; the clypeus without any tubercle, 

 the basal portion of the third, fourth and fifth abdominal seg- 



