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Legs black, thickly covered with longish, silvery hair ; 

 the tarsi towards the apex more or less rufous ; the 

 calcaria white. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax 

 united, black ; a silvery spot on the apex of the basal 

 segment at the apex ; a large, round, central and a smaller, 

 more elongate mark on the side of the second segment, 

 and the centre of the fourth and fifth segments broadly in 

 the centre, covered with silvery pubescence ; the basal 

 segments punctured, sparsely covered with long black 

 hairs; the pygidium shining, covered with long, black 

 hairs ; the centre slightly raised, impunctate ; the rest 

 punctured, the punctures large, moderately deep and 

 clearly separated. The basal ventral segment testaceous ; 

 the apical three-fourths keeled down the middle ; the keel 

 black, dilated at the base, but not much ; the second 

 segment with large, shallow punctures, sparsely covered 

 with long, pale hairs ; towards the apex the middle 

 projects into a stout, somewhat triangular, tooth ; the other 

 segments closely and rather strongly punctured except at 

 the base, and covered with long hair ; the hypopygium 

 closely punctured and for the greater part testaceous. 



Might be the ? of M. cedipus, but this is a point which 

 can only be settled by direct observation. 



MUTILLA SIMPLICATA, Sp. nov. 



Long. 10 mm. 9. 



Hab. Mahaganay, Ceylon {Yerbury). 



Belongs to the limited group of Mutilla kanarcB Cam. 

 and M. atomiis Andre, distinguished by having no spots 

 on the abdomen, having instead broad bands of reddish- 

 fulvous pubescence ; the legs red, the antenncie black, 

 reddish at the base. M. kanarcs is a larger species than 

 this, its thorax is red : the head covered above with fulvous 

 pubescence ; and the second abdominal segment fulvous 



