74 HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



wider towards the apex ; the apex is smooth ; at the base of 

 this smooth part is a row of large punctures ; from this the peti- 

 ole slopes obliquely to the base ; the ventral keel is straight, 

 rounded at the base and apex ; the second segment is covered 

 with short depressed clear white pubescence ; and is smooth and 

 shining in the middle at the apex ; the pygidium bears large 

 round punctures all over. Legs black, thickly covered with 

 long white hair ; the spurs white. 



Mutilla ira, sp. nov. 



Nigra, dense albo piloso ; alis fusco-violaceis, basi fere 

 hyalinis 5 . 



Long : 17 mm. ^ 



Hab. Sarawak, Borneo (Shelford). 



Head distinctly narrower than the thorax ; closely rugosely 

 punctured and thickly covered with long white pubescence ; 

 the vertex and front with the hair sparser and shorter. The 

 clypeus is smooth and shining and is keeled in the middle ; the 

 mandibles, at the base, are thickly covered with long white hair. 

 Thorax densely covered with longish grey pubescence ; the 

 mesonotum is strongly, distinctly and uniformly punctured ; the 

 furrows are distinct on the apical half. Scutellum strongly, 

 deeply and uniformly punctured and roundly convex ; the post- 

 scutellum opaque, coarsely aciculated. Median segment coarse- 

 ly reticulated ; the basal median reticulation is twice longer 

 than broad and has the apical half abruptly narrowed. Meso- 

 pleune coarsely punctured in the middle and thickly covered 

 with grey hair ; the lower part of the metapleuras is alutaceous, 

 the upper punctured. Legs thickly covered with long white 

 hair ; the calcaria pale. Wings dark violaceous, paler at the 

 base ; the cubital cellules complete ; the middle one, is, above 

 and below, longer than the following. Abdomen black, the 

 basal two segments, the basal half of the third rufous ; the base 

 of the petiole is broad, more than half the width of the apex ; 

 the ventral keel is broadly rounded ; the hair is white on the 

 basal segments, shorter and black on the apical two ; the hypo- 

 pyginm is punctured, smooth and shining in the middle ; there 

 are no keels or furrows on the epipygium. 



