150 SPOLIA ZEYLANIGCA. 
segment coarsely reticulate, two narrowly separated longitudinal 
carine at the base of the median segment converging towards the 
middle. Abdomen shining and sparsely and finely punctured, 
more closely at the apex of the segments than at the base, and with 
a fringe of pubescence near the apex of the segments. The carina 
on the first basal segment is very shallowly emarginate beneath. 
Third abscissa of the radius equal in length to the first, the second 
half as long again; first recurrent nervure received before two-thirds 
from the base of the second cubital cell, second at three-quarters 
from the base of the third cubital cell. 
Length, 14 mm. 
Hab.—Colombo, Ceylon (Wickwar). 6 2 in copula. 
The male is near foreata, Cam., but differs in the distinct, though 
low, tubercle on the scutellum, the shape of the carina on the first 
ventral segment, the clypeus, and the proportions of the cubital 
cells. M.acidalia, Cam., is doubtfully distinct. In most specimens 
of hexaops the wings are fuscous at the apex. 
Mutilla melanota, sp. nov. 
?. Nigra, rugosa, abdomina delicatissime punctato, segmentis 
3-4 albo bimaculatis, secundo quadrimaculato, pedibus fusco- 
ferrugineis. 
Head and thorax coarsely rugose, the mesopleure smooth and 
concave, abdomen finely punctured, the sixth segment closely 
punctured, flattened, the pygidial area not defined. Eyes large, 
situated nearer to the posterior margin of the head than to the base 
of the mandibles, separated from the posterior margin of the head 
by a distance less than their greatest breadth. Scape shining and 
almost smooth, the second joint of the flagellum more than half as 
long again as the third. Thorax scarcely as wide as the head, 
broadened. posteriorly, the anterior margin rounded, almost verti- 
cally truncate posteriorly, the sides slightly crenulate, emarginate 
before the middle, the sides of the posterior truncation with small 
teeth, the thorax nearly twice as long as the breadth at the base of 
the truncation. 
Black ; the apex of the scape and the legs fusco-ferruginous ; the 
second abdominal segment with an elongate ovate spot of dull white 
pubescence on each side before the middle, another smaller and 
transverse on each side on the apical margin, the third and fourth 
segments with a large spot on each side, the sides of the abdomen 
and the apex of the ventral segments with long whitish pubescence, 
the apex of the second segment fusco-ferruginous. 
Length, 7 mm. 
Hab.—Hambantota, Ceylon (Iletcher) ; November. 
Allied to M. sexmaculata, Swed., but the shape of the thorax is 
different. 
