14 Cameron, Hymenoptera Ortentana. 



golden hair on the apex of the first segment ; a roundish 

 mark near the base of the second segment in the middle ; 

 a semicircular one on the extreme apex ; and a broad belt 

 of golden pubescence on the apex of the third ; the other 

 segments at the sides with long, pale golden hair ; the 

 pygidial area rufous in the centre, strongly and uniformly 

 longitudinally striolated. The basal ventral segment 

 rufous at the sides ; the base with two stout curved keels ; 

 shining ; the central keel stout, straight ; the second 

 segment stoutly punctured ; the other segments at the 

 base finely transversely striated ; their apices closely 

 punctured, as are also their sides ; and they are covered 

 sparsely with long, pale hair. 



This species has a considerable resemblance to M. 

 buddha Cam., but that is longer; its legs are stouter 

 shorter and more thickly haired; the basal abdominal 

 segment is wider compared with the second and more dis- 

 tinctly separated from it, the second segment itself being 

 of equal breadth at base and apex, whereas in M. litigiosa 

 the base of the segment is narrower than the apex ; and 

 in M. buddha the pygidium is not striolated. 



MUTILLA FALLACIOSA, Sp. nov. 



Long. 7-8 mm. 



Hub. Trincomali, Ceylon ( Yerbury). 



Similar in form and coloration — black, with the thorax 

 red above, the second abdominal segment with two white 

 round spots, the one behind the other, and the whole of 

 the third segment covered with silvery hair — to M. coii- 

 stancicE, but easily separated by the very roughly tubercu- 

 lated median segment Is also not unlike M. litigiosa 

 described in this paper, but that has the pleurae red, the 

 head more coarsely and not so thickly punctured, and the 

 base of the thorax above is not black. Also not unlike 

 M. dives Cam., but differs in the tuberculated median 



