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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF 



EYMENOPTERA COLLECTED BY MAJOR C. S. 



NURSE AT DEESA, SIMLA AND FEROZEPORE. 



Br P. Cameron. 



Part I. 



[^Wuh a Plate.'\ 



{Read he fore the Bomhay Natural History Society, 11th Dec. 1900.) 



In this poper I liavo described some new genera and species of 



Flymenoptera taken by Major C. S. Nurse, I. S. C. Apart from the 



new genera, the most interesting of Major Nurse's discoveries is the 



undescribed species of Meira — a genus not hitherto recorded from India, 



and of which only a few species are known from the South of Europe and 



the North of Africa. Major Nurse has also been able to give us the 



first record of the rearing of a species of Mutilla in India, and, what is of 



as much importance, he has reared both sexes. Mntilla is probably 



one of the largest genera of Aculeate Hymenoptera, and is fast becomiuo- 



utterly un\\ieldy from the fact of the males and females having to be 



treated as distinct species. 



FOSSORES. 

 MUTILLIDJL. 

 Mutilla climia, sp. jwv. 



Nigra, dense albo pilosa, alls fusco violaceis, basi free hyalinis ; 

 stigmate pallido, magno. $ 



Length. — 7-8 mm. 



Habitat. — Deesa. 



AntenuEG black, the flagellum brownish on the lower side, the scape 

 thickly covered with white pubescence. Head black, shining, thickly 

 covered with long white hair, which is longest on the vertex ; 

 the front and vertex are closely and distinctly punctured ; the apex of 

 the clypeus is piceous. Mandibles black, shining, a piceous band near 

 the middle, the palpi black. Thorax black, thickly covered with white 

 hair ; the meso- and pro-notum closely punctured, the latter more 

 coarsely than the former. Scutellum closely rugose, the middle 

 coarsely aciculated. Median segment closely and uniformly reticulated. 

 PleursB closely, ru^osely punctured. Wings fuscous- violaceous, the 

 base and the anterior wings more hyaline in tint ; the radial cellule is 

 small, the radius roundly curved from the first transverse cubital 



