8 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



pedtmculata the epipygium is said to be smooth, longitu- 

 dinally carinate in the middle ; in M. apicipennis it is only 

 smooth at the base, the rest closely rugosely punctured 

 and without a trace of a keel {cf., Gribodo, Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Genova, xx., p. 390). M. pedunculata is known from 

 Arabia and Berbera. It, with M. cklorotica Grib., and 

 perhaps M. asiatica Rad., forms the genus or subgenus 

 Tricholabiodes Rad. 



When I described M. apicipennis, I relied (not having 

 Klug's work to consult) on the description of M. pedun- 

 culata given by Sichel and Radoszkowski in their Mono- 

 graph of the Old World Mutillidce. Their M. pedunculata 

 is assuredly not M. apicipennis, but is perhaps M. cklorotica 

 Grib. It has not the petiole serrate beneath, nor is any 

 mention made of there being two furrows on the meso- 

 notum. M. cklorotica (also from Arabia) differs from M. 

 apicipennis in having the abdomen without any black, the 

 petiole without teeth, and all the abdominal segments 

 obliquely punctured. It seems to me therefore clear that 

 M. peduncidata Klug must be deleted from the lists of 

 Oriental Mutillidce, unless the example from " Western 

 India" recorded by Bingham, be the true M. peduncidata, 

 in which case his description does not fit it. 



MUTILLA POSTHUMA, Sp. nov. 

 Long. 4*5 mm. 



Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon ( Yerbury). 

 In the table {Manckester Memoirs, Yo\. 5 (i892),p.i23-4) 

 this species comes in at "15. Head red, wholly or in part." 

 16. Abdomen with one spot and one band. 

 16a. Head and thorax with golden hair; antennae 

 entirely rufo-testaceous ; pygidial area black, not longi- 

 tudinally striated. Length 7 mm. M. poonaensis Cam. 

 i6<^. Head and thorax without golden hair ; antennae 

 at the base pallid testaceous, fuscous towards the apex ; 

 the pygidial area testaceous, distinctly longitudinally 

 striated. Length 4-5 mm. M. posthuma. 



