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moderately wide and deep and reach to the apex ; between 

 them at the base in the middle is an elongated smooth spot. 

 Scutellum pyramidal, rugosely punctured, the middle smooth 

 and shining, produced at the apex into a rounded point ; at 

 the base is a slight triangular depression. The median 

 segment has a rounded slope, is reticulated, and covered with 

 long pale fulvous hair ; the central area is elongated, slightly 

 ■widened at the base, the sides there oblique. Propleuras 

 stoutly obliquely striated except at the apex. Mesopleurre 

 coarsely punctured and sparsely covered with long fulvous 

 hair in the middle, the apical half of the metapleura3 strongly 

 reticulated. Legs thickly covered with pale hairs; the tarsal 

 spines rufous, the calcaria pale. Wings uniformly viola- 

 ceous ; the second cubital cellule at the top is nearly one 

 fourth longer than the third. Abdomen rufous ; the petiole, 

 except at the apex, and the apical two segments black ; the 

 hair on the basal segment is pale, on the middle pale fulvous, 

 on the apical black intermixed with pale ; the apex of the 

 pygidium is depressed and sparsely punctured ; the middle in 

 front of this depression is slightly raised and smooth. The 

 keel on the basal ventral segment is stout, dilated broadly 

 at the base ; the hypopygium is dilated in the middle, the 

 dilatation becoming gradually larger towards the base. 

 Mussooree, N.\V. Himalayas. 



Mutilla fortinata, sp. n. 



Nigra, dense albo-pilosa, abdominis segmentis 1°, 2°, et 3° ferru- 



gineis ; alis fusco-violaceis, basi fere hyalinis. S . 

 Long. 12-13 mm. 



Scape of antennae thickly covered with white hairs ; the 

 third and fourth joints are almost equal in length, the apical 

 joints are slightly roundly dilated above. Front and vertex 

 strongly punctured, covered with long pale hairs, the front 

 also thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the antennal 

 keels are stout, projecting and curved. Clypeus smooth, 

 shining, glabrous, broadly distinctly keeled in the middle, 

 the sides from the keel oblique ; the apex is transverse, the 

 sides oblique, so that the inner side appears depressed. Tlie 

 base of the mandibles thickly covered with long white hairs, 

 the apex on the lower side more sparsely with long golden 

 hair; the basal tooth is stout, blunt. Pronotum strongly 

 rugosely punctured, smooth and shining at the base ; the 

 upper part of the propleurse strongly rugose, the middle with 

 stout keels, the lower part smooth. Mesonotum punctured, 

 shining, thickly covered with long black iiair; the furrows 



