Indian Aculeate Ilijmenopiera. o9o 



scape of antennae, head, tliorax, and legs with somewhat long 

 grey pubescence, thickest on the pronotum and scutellum ; 

 abdomen with golden pubescence. Wings fuscous, with three 

 cubital cells ; radial cell short, obtuse at apex, tlie apex of 

 the third cubital cell not reaching beyond that of the radial 

 cell ; in the fore wing the third transverse cubital nervure and 

 second recurrent nervure are narrower than the other nervures; 

 nervures and tegulre black. 



Long. 12-14 niillim. 



Hah. Deesa ; fairly common. 



Tiiis species would come into Bingham's key on p. 9 after 

 1/. Emeriji, under a new section e-. " Abdomen, except basal 

 segment, red." In general appearance it looks like a small 

 and faded male of 31. sex-maculata, which sometimes has the 

 apical abdominal segment red. But the scutellum is normal 

 and very different from that of M, sex-maculata (see Cameron's 

 description in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, for July 1899, p. 62). 



Mutilla suspecia, sp. n. 



(J . Head, thorax and abdomen strongly punctured, the 

 punctures on the median segment being larger and coarser 

 than elsewhere ; head narrower than pronotum, rounded 

 posteriorly ; pronotum transverse anteriorly, mesonotum and 

 scutellum much raised, median segment rounded posteriorly; 

 first abdominal segment rather short, at apex about one third 

 the width of second segment, which is wider than thorax, apical 

 abdominal segment rounded. Black, the antennae rufous at 

 apex ; scape of antennae, head, thorax and abdomen covered 

 with silvery pubescence, intermixed with a few black hairs, 

 the pubescence on the head and pronotum liaving a matted 

 appearance; narrow apical bands on first and second abdominal 

 segments, the whole of the third segment, and two median 

 spots on the second segment, in addition to the apical band, 

 one spot being basal and minute, the other apical and larger, 

 the latter joining on to the apical band, all of silvery 

 pubescence ; apical abdominal segment with the black hairs 

 predominating ; legs with white pubescence, calcaria black. 

 Both wings hyaline at base, infuscated at apex, the median 

 third of fore wing with a flavous tinge, nervures and tegul^ 

 black ; radial cell vei^^ short, rounded at apex. The number 

 of cubital cells varies from two to three ; when the latter 

 number are present the third is very much narrowed at the 

 top, the second and third transverse cubital nervures almost 

 joining at the radial nervure. 



Long. 9-10 millim. 



several specimens. 



