Indian Aculeate ITymenoptera. 397 



second segment with two median spots of silvery pubescence, 

 one at base and one at apex, the basal spot the larger, also 

 two ill-defined lateral larger spots of more sj^arse wliite pubes- 

 cence, not entirely covering the black ; third segment with 

 a band of white pubescence, narrowly interrupted in the 

 middle, a little white pubescence on the sixth segment ; all 

 the segments below with fringes of white pubescence ; the 

 legs spinose, with wliite pubescence, the spines black, calcaria 

 pale ; the whole of the head, thorax and abdomen more 

 or less covered with erect black hairs, longer than tlie 

 pubescence. 



Long. 11-12 millim. 



Hah. Deesa; rare. 



This species would come into Bingham's key on p. 4 next 

 to M. hlanJa, but it is larger, the pubescent band on the 

 third abdominal segment is interrupted in the middle, and 

 the thorax is red only in the centre above, not at the sides. 



Mutilla argenteomaciilata, Smith. 



? . The thorax and second (not first) abdominal segment 

 are, when carefully looked at with a lens, not red but black, 

 though the short depressed golden pubescence makes them 

 appear at first sight red; the white pubescent spots on t!ie 

 abdomen are as follows : one median on first segment, one 

 median basal, one median apical, an J two lateral on second 

 segment, one median and two lateral on third, fourth, and 

 fifth segments, of which the median spot on third segment is 

 frequently obsolete. 



cJ. The white pubescent spots on the abJomen are as 

 follows : median apical on second to sixth segments, lateral 

 on apical margin of second segment (often obsolete) ; the 

 whole of the basal half of the third segment is also covered 

 with white pubescence. 



These notes are taken from a considerable series of fresh 

 specimens, while Bingham's description was probably taken 

 from an old or worn example. 



Mutilla fumipennis, Bingh. 



A variety of this sjjiecies has the basal half of the fore win"- 

 clear hyaline instead of deep yellow. 



Mutilla aversa, sp. n. 



? . Head closely but somewhat shallowly punctured, 

 thorax striate in the centre above, punctured at the sides and 



