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equal width throughout ; the apex has an oblique slope and 

 is covered with long pale hairs. Propleurse shining, slightly 

 hollowed; the lovver part with four stout keels. MesopleursB 

 strongly punctured in the middle, the base and apex smooth. 

 Metapleurse smooth, the apex strongly reticulated; the base 

 on the lower side faintly and irregularly reticulated. Stern un 

 smooth and shining. Legs black, thickly covered with white 

 hair on the femora and tibiae ; the hair on the tarsi stiflfer and 

 more rufous in tint, especially on the lower side. Wings 

 uniformly fuscous violaceous ; the nervures and stigma 

 black, the second cubital cellule at the top is slightly, at the 

 bottom more distinctly, longer than the third ; both the re- 

 current nervures are received near the base of the basal third 

 of the cellules. Abdomen ferruginous ; the petiole, except 

 at the apex, and (he last segment black ; the petiole s[)arsely 

 punctured, the sides covered with long pale hair; its ventral 

 keel straight, only very slightly projecting at the base ; the 

 second to Hfth segments ferruginous, their apices broadly 

 covered with bright golden hair; the apex of the penultimate 

 segment is black and covered also with golden liairs; the 

 last segment is punctured, smooth down the middle, and 

 covered with long white hairs. 



Mutilla zodiaca, sp. n. 



Nigra, abdomine rufo, apice nigro ; capite thoraceque dense albo- 



pilosis ; alls violaceis. J • 

 Long. 8 mm. 



Antennas stout, black ; the scape covered with silvery 

 hair, the flagellum with a pale pile. Head densely covered 

 with longish silvery pubescence, which hides the sculpture 

 on the front and vertex; the clypeus thickly covered with 

 long silvery hair. Mandibles broadly rufous in the middle, 

 the base thickly covered with silvery pubescence. Pro- 

 notum thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the pleur;« 

 smooth except for a few indistinct strise. Mesonotutn 

 coarsely punctured, shining, sparsely covered with longish 

 black hairs ; the two furrows are wide and deep. Scutellum 

 rugosely punctured. The apical half of the median segment 

 is thickly covered with depressed silvery pubescence, which 

 completely hides the surface, which is reticulated ; the apex 

 has an oblique slope, is closely reticulated, and is covered 

 with long white hair. Mesopleurse punctured and thickly 

 covered with silvery pubescence in the middle ; the apex of 

 the metapleura; is reticulated ; the base on the lower side is 

 obscurely punctured. Mesosternum opaque, covered with 



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