398 Mnjor C. G. Xiirse on new 



between the striations ; abdomen apparently finely punctured, 

 but the sculpturing is more or less hidden by the pubescence; 

 head massive, broader than the thorax, eyes small, not emar- 

 ginate, head behind them wider than their lengtli ; clypeus 

 short, its apex hidden in the type specimen by the mandibles; 

 thorax of equal width throughout, sloped gradually upwards 

 to the scutellum, where there is a row of conspicuous teeth, 

 and from whence the median segment is steeply sloped down- 

 wardSj forming almost a right angle with the rest of the 

 thorax; abdomen non-petiolate, second segment wider than 

 the thorax, but not or scarcely wider than the head ; apical 

 abdominal segment punctured, with a median longitudinal 

 keel. Black, tiie head and thorax above red ; head anl 

 thorax with sparse greyish pubescence, intermixed with a 

 few black hairs ; legs with grey or white pubescence, tibiai 

 very spinose, tarsi inclining to rufous, calcaria pale ; abdom3n 

 with somewhat dense black pubescence, a round spot at the 

 apex of first segment, a semicircular one at the apex of 

 second, and a similar smaller spot at the apex of third 

 segment, white ; the long hairs on the apical segment and at 

 the sides of the abdomen grey. 



Long. 8 millim. 



Hab. Deesa ; not common. 



Comes into Bingham's key, section B, after M. ocellatn, 

 and is allied to Cameron's M. persuasa, but the row of 

 teeth at the apex of thorax suffices to distinguish it from 

 either. 



Mulilla optima^ Smith. 



rS . Stoutly built ; head, thorax and abdomen closely punc- 

 tured, the puncturing much hidden by the pubescence ; head 

 narrower than the thorax, eyes small, not emarginate ; thorax 

 subquadrate, median segment roundly truncate posteriorly; 

 abdomen with the basal segment very short and narrow. 

 Black, the mandibles in the middle, and the antennae below, 

 dark red; head, pronotum, scutellum, a broad basal band, 

 emarginate in the centre on the second abdominal segment, 

 and the whole of the third and fourth segments with silvery 

 pubescence ; legs sparsely spinose, the spines and calcaria 

 black, the pubescence silvery, except on the mesonotum, 

 median segment, apical portion of the second and the filth 

 and following segments, where it is black; wings with only 

 two cubital cells, the radial cell very short and rounded at 

 apex ; fore wing with the basal three fifths subhyaline, with 

 a flavous tinge, remainder subfuscous ; hind wing hyaline at 



