50 P. CAMERON. HYMENOPTERA I. 



with blue ; the back of the abdomen slightly tinged with blue, the sides with brassy tints. 

 Antennae black, the basai joint entirely, the follovving 3 green above. Wings fuscous-violaceous, 

 the nervures black. Ç>. 



Length 8 mm. 



The 31'd antennal joint slightly shorter than the following two united. Vertex strongly 

 and closely punctured ; below the ocelli the punctuation is weaker and not so close, especially 

 in the middle. Eye orbits transversely, stoutly striated ; on the outer orbits thèse are bordered 

 by a keel. Head slightly, but distinctly, wider than the pronotum. Upper part of the thorax 

 closely and deeply punctured, the postscutellum with the punctures larger and deeper, its 

 apex broadly rounded. The central fovea of the metanotum is larger, wider than long, rounded 

 and narrowed behind, deep and with a narrow keel in the centre ; there are 2 latéral oval 

 ones, the inner being clearly larger than the outer. Upper part of propleurae stoutly punct- 

 ured, the central dépression large, deep, irregularly, closely finely striated-reticulated ; on the 

 top above there is a smaller dépression, longer than wide. Mesopleurae stoutly, deeply, irre- 

 gularly punctured ; near the apex is an oblique dépression ; below is a longitudinal furrow, 

 narrow at the base, wide at the apex, where there are 3 large irregular areae. Metapleurae 

 deeply depressed, stoutly, closely obliquely striated. Abdomen closely punctured; the 3 ld 

 segment more closely and strongly than the basai ; there is a deep, triangular dépression in 

 the centre above the basai slope. There are 10 anteapical foveae ; the outer 3 are shallower 

 and become gradually larger from the outer to the innerside and they are widely separated ; 

 the inner two are closer, smaller and deeper; the outer teeth are broader and slightly shorter 

 than the inner. The legs are of a darker green than the body ; the tarsi black, marked with 

 green at the base. 



MUTILLIDAE. 

 Mutilla Lin. 



1. Mutilla tamensis sp. nov. 

 Tami, May. 



Black, the basai three fourths of the thorax above and a large triangular mark on the 

 base of the pleurae, above its apex reaching close to the middle, red, a small oval patch of 

 silvery pubescence on the base of the 2nd abdominal segment and the whole of the yà co- 

 vered with similar pubescence. Head nearly as wide as the thorax ; closely, strongly punctured- 

 reticulated, longitudinally above, more closely below, where the punctures run more into 

 reticulations; it is covered with black pubescence. Temples closely rugosely punctured above, 

 below coarsely reticulated. Lower part of front, above the antennae broadly, roundly bilobate. 

 Thorax somewhat more than twice longer than its width at the base, gradually slightly nar- 

 rowed towards the apex; before the middle above is a short, blunt, indistinct projection; 

 above it is closely, sharply longitudinally striated ; the upper part of the apical slope covered 

 with large elongated, not very deep punctures; the rest is more shining, much less closely 

 and less strongly punctured. Pro- and mesonotum smooth, except the latter below, where it 

 is strongly reticulated-punctured. Basai segment of the abdomen with an oblique straight 



