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except the lower part of the propleurse and the pro- 

 sternum. Scutellum black ; covered with long white 

 hairs; the base and centre of the median segments with 

 large, the sides with smaller reticulations, and having a 

 gradually rounded slope. The propleurae are coarsely 

 punctured, almost reticulated ; the mesopleurae coarsely 

 punctured and densely covered with long white hair ; 

 the upper part of the metapleurae reticulated, the lower 

 smooth. Legs black, densely covered with long white 

 soft hairs ; the calcaria pale. The alar nervures testa- 

 ceous, slightly darker at the base ; radial cellule wide ; 

 the basal abscissa of the radius oblique, straight, shorter 

 than the apical which is curved, almost angled in the 

 middle ; the first transverse cubital nervure is oblique, 

 slightly curved ; the second is curved and bullated beneath 

 hardly oblique ; the third is sharply angled in the middle ; 

 the first recurrent nervure is received in the middle, 

 the second in the apical third of the wing. Abdomen 

 at the base rather strongly punctured, towards the 

 apex, the punctation becomes weaker ; covered, especially 

 at the apices of the segments, with long white hairs. 

 The basal abdominal segment coarsely punctured ; the 

 central keel, moderately strongly developed and hardly 

 raised at the apex ; the second segment strongly, the 

 others much more weakly punctured ; their apices fringed 

 with long white hairs ; the apical segment entire, not 

 depressed, punctured throughout. 



C. Species described from females only, 



MUTILLA LUXURIOSA, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra, thorace supra obscure femigineo ; abdominc albo- 

 sexmaculato. 2 . Long. 7 — 8 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Head not broader than the thorax ; black ; the man- 

 dibles in the middle, clypeus and the antennal tubercles 



