from the Oriental Zoological Region. 65 



sparsely with shorter black, hair ; the two furrows are 

 deep and wide. Scutelkim scarcely raised above the level 

 of the mesonotum, strongly punctured, the middle on the 

 basal part smooth and shining, the smooth part slightly 

 depressed in the middle at the base ; the postscuteUum tinely 

 rugose. Median segment reticulated, the apex more closely 

 below, its upper part more irregularly and with a keel down 

 the middle ; the reticulations on the basal half are large and 

 irregular; the central area is wide, slightly widened at the 

 base, and it reaches to the apex. There is a large, stout, 

 curved keel near the base of the propleur^ ; in the middle are 

 three oblique ones ; mesopleuraj rugosely punctured except 

 behind, in the middle thickly covered with white pubescence ; 

 the apex of metapleurje reticulated. Mesosternum smooth 

 and shining. Legs black ; the hair, calcaria, and spinea 

 white. Wings dark fuscous violaceous ; the nervures black ; 

 the second cubital cellule at the top is slightly longer than 

 the third ; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly 

 beyond the middle ; the upper part of the radius is only at a 

 slightly different angle from the lower. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous ; the base of the petiole and the apical segment black ; 

 the penultimate segment piceous black; the petiole is strongly 

 but not closely punctured ; the ventral keel is slightly roundly 

 curved and a little dilated towards the apex ; the pygidium is 

 closely punctured, smooth in the middle ; the hypopygium has 

 a stout oblique keel on the sides, which projects into a trian- 

 gular tooth at the apex. 



Mutilla jianna, sp, n. 



I^igra, abdominis medio late ferrugineo ; medio scutello l»vi ; alia 



fusco-violaceis, basi hyalinis. <J . 

 Long. 13-14 mm. 



Front and vertex strongly punctured, the middle of the 

 front thickly covered witli silvery pubescence, the vertex 

 sparsely with long fuscous hair. Clypeus smooth, the apex 

 slightly and finely transversely striated, transverse, the sides 

 oblique. Mandibles at the base thickly covered with long 

 pale fulvous hair ; the apical joints of the palpi dull testaceous. 

 Pronotum strongly punctured; the upper third of the pro- 

 pleurse slightly hollowed, smooth, the rest bearing six or seven 

 stout keels. Mesonotum shining, strongly punctured, sparsely 

 covered with stiff black hairs ; the two furrows are wide and 

 deep ; in its centre in front is a smooth shining line. Scu- 

 telluni scarcely raised above the mesonotum, its apex has an 



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