llymenoptera from Northern India. 27'J 



3(2). Medium-sized; the areola not distinctly longer 

 than broad, its apex not transverse ; the yellow 

 line on the petiole not dilated backwards ; the 

 antennas not stout. Length 17 mm maculiceps. 



4 (1). The second or following segments marked with 



yellow. 



5 (6). The second segment with two yellow marks, the 



others immaculate ; the areola sharply narrowed 



at the base fumipennis. 



(J {'>). The second segment broadly yellow at the apex; 

 the third and fourth segments with two large 

 marks on the apex ; the areola broadly rounded 

 at the base annul itarsis. 



Mutillidae. 

 Mutilla inoa, sp. n. 



Black, densely covered with silvery pubescence ; the second 

 and third abdominal segments ferruginous ; the scutellum 

 pyramidal, its basal slope smooth and shining in the middle ; 

 the basal area on the median segment of equal width 

 throughout and reaching to the top of the apical slope ; the 

 wings fusco-violaceous, paler at the base. <j . 



Length 15 mm. 



Antennas black, the scape covered with white hair. Head 

 rugosely punctured, with a smooth space on the sides of the 

 ocelli; the front and occiput thickly covered with long white 

 hair, the vertex more sparsely with longer black hair. Face 

 and clypeus bare,, smooth and shining, the apex of the clypeus 

 transverse and clearly separated from the sides. Base of 

 mandibles thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the sub- 

 apical tooth distinct. The malar space ends in a tubercle or 

 blunt rounded tooth on the inner and outer side. Pronotum 

 thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; on the basal slope 

 is a central and two lateral smooth spots ; the propleuras 

 rugosely punctured, the apex smooth, the middle depressed 

 and obscurely stoutly striated. Mesonotum rugosely punc- 

 tured and thickly covered with longish black hair. Scutellum 

 pyramidal, rugose, the basal slope smooth and shining ; the 

 base and apex of the smooth part longitudinally furrowed ; 

 the apical slope is oblique ; the basal is also oblique, but 

 more rounded than the apical ; the hair is long, on the basal 

 slope black, on the apical fuscous. Median segment coarsely 

 reticulated, the base thickly covered with depressed silvery 

 pubescence ; the central area is of equal width throughout. 

 Metapleurae (except in the centre) reticulated. The second 

 and third cubital cellules at the top are about equal in length. 

 Abdomen black ; the extreme apex of the first and the whole 



