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hair ; over the middle coxce it is rufous. Legs black ; the 

 anterior coxae and femora rufous ; the other femora, tibiae 

 and tarsi more or less piceous ; the femora more sparsely, 

 the tibiae and tarsi much more thickly covered with long 

 silvery hair ; the tibial spines thick, testaceous ; the 

 calcaria white. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax 

 united ; the basal segment irregularly reticulated ; the 

 base covered, but not thickly, with long, black hair ; the 

 apex fringed with long, fulvous, golden hair, which extends 

 on to the base of the second segment ; the second segment 

 coarsely irregularly reticulated, most strongly at the sides, 

 thickly covered with long, black hair ; in its centre, in 

 front of the middle, are two oval marks of silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the other segments are covered with long, black 

 pubescence ; on the third, are two marks of silvery 

 pubescence, but wider and shorter than those on the 

 second ; the apical segments are slightly fringed with 

 silvery hairs at their apices ; the pygidial area smooth, 

 shining, impunctate ; covered thickly at the sides with 

 long, black and a few silvery hairs. The first and second 

 ventral segments piceous ; the basal obliquely triangularly 

 raised in the middle ; the basal part depressed before the 

 apex ; the second segment broadly depressed in the 

 middle at the base ; its apical half bearing large, deep, 

 irregular punctures ; sparsely covered with long, white 

 hairs ; the other segments closely punctured at the apices, 

 thickly covered with long, silvery hair. The apices of the 

 third and fourth ventral segments are obscure testaceous 

 in the middle. 



MUTILLA ELTOLA, Sp. nov. 



Long, fere 7 mm. 



Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon ( Yerbury). 



A species very similar in form and markings to M. 

 rotJmeyi Cam., but may be known from it by the median 

 segment not having "a single central spine posteriorly." 



