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NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN BYMENOPTERA. 

 By Major C. G. Nurse, 13th Bombay Infantry. 

 ( With a Plate.) 

 In my short paper on Sp-rt and Natural History in Northern 

 Gujarat, published in Vol. XIIJ., No. 2, of tlus journal, I promised to 

 write a paper describing new species of Hymenoptera collected by 

 myself during tt^e past four years. This promise I am only able to 

 partially redeem personally, as owing to the unexpected curtailment of 

 my leave to Europe, I had not the opportunity of comparing my 

 specimens with those in other collections. I took home with me 

 some 3,U0(J specimens, the result of about 3-| years collecting, and 

 among them it appears there were some 10 new genera, and over 100 

 new species. The following paper contains, therefore, descriptions of a 

 few only of the new species contained in my collection, but it will be 

 followed by papers by Mr. P. Cameron, a well known authority on 

 Hymenoptera, describing the new genera and the remaining 

 species. 



I have described below only species of the familips dealt 

 with by Colonel Bingham in his Vol. I. of Hymenoptera of the 

 Fauna of India Series, which appear to be undoubtedly new, 

 Mr. Cameron's paper will include a considerable number of new 

 species of the same families, as well as of Hymenoptera Parasitica, 

 Tubulifera, &c. 



'1 he present paper does not include the Apidse, which will be dealt 

 with later on. 



MuTiLLA sonata, n. sp. 

 $ Head, pronotum, mesonotum, and abdomen finely, median segment 

 coarsely, punctured ; eyes emarginate, three shallow groves on the 

 front, each terminating in an ocellus ; median segment rounded and 

 somewhat depressed posterioi-Iy ; first abdominal segment rather short. 

 Jet black ; head, thorax, and legs with t^parse greyish pubescence ; 

 abdomen witn bunds of tawny pubescence on apical margins of segments 

 1-5 ; apical segment with black pubescence. Wings fusco-hyaline 

 tegulse black, nervures dark fuscous. 

 Length 11 mm.' exp. It) mm. 

 Habitat : 6imla. 

 Nearest to M> discreta (Cam.) 



