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radius oblique and twice the length of the apical ; the 

 second cubital cellule elongate, its lower side twice the 

 length of the third ; the first recurrent nervure is received 

 shortly beyond the middle ; the second in the apical third 

 of the cellule. Abdomen thickly covered with long rufo- 

 fulvous hairs ; the petiole black ; the sides with large deep 

 punctures ; the keel blunt ; the second segment indis- 

 tinctly punctured ; the last two segments black ; the 

 apices of the others fringed with long orange hairs ; the 

 last segment is more strongly punctured ; and is stoutly 

 keeled at the sides. 



MUTILLA DILECTA, Sp. flOV. 



Nigra, thorace rufo, mesopleuris nigris ; alls fusco- 

 hyalinis. 6. Long. 8 mm. 



Hub. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Head black, coarsely punctured, covered densely with 

 white pubescence and more sparsely with long fuscous 

 hairs ; a furrow leads down to the antennae ; head rounded 

 and narrowed behind the eyes, the vertex less than half 

 the length of the eyes ; an indistinct furrow at the sides of 

 the ocelli; mandibles entirely black; palpi pale. Antennae 

 stout, the flagellum covered with pale down ; the scape 

 sparsely haired. Prothorax large, red, except a somewhat 

 triangular black mark on the lower part of the propleurae ; 

 in front it is transverse ; the sides above straight, very 

 slightly widened and straight towards the tegulae. Meso- 

 notum coarsely punctured, as also the scutellum ; the 

 median segment strongly reticulated ; the reticulations 

 large and all well denned, the central reticulation at the 

 base being the largest, with the sides straight, and the 

 apex triangular. The apex of the median segment is 

 obliquely truncated. The propleurae are coarsely longi- 

 tudinally striolated ; the mesopleurae somewhat strongly 

 punctured except at the base and the apex, the latter 



