76 HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



Mutilla bagrada, sp. nov. 



Long : 10-17 mm. $ . 



Hab. Kuching, Sarawak. 



This species comes very near to M. casiphia ; the differences 

 between the two may be expressed thus : — 



Scute Hum not furrowed down the middle ; the keel on the 

 petiole straight ; the face not tuberculate ; the pro- 

 pleura? smooth except above. bagrada. 



Scutellum furrowed down the middle; the keel on the 

 petiole curved ; the face tuberculate below ; the pro- 

 pleura rugose. casiphia. 



Flagellum of antenna? brownish beneath, the third and 

 fourth joints equal in length. Front and vertex coarsely 

 rugosely punctured ; the punctures running into reticula- 

 tions on the front; the apex of the tubercles rufous. 

 Clypeus slightly depressed in the middle ; smooth, shining ; the 

 apex transverse. The face thickly covered with long grey hair. 

 Mandibles at the base thickly covered with grey hair ; the 

 subapical tooth is indistinct ; the apex of the projection behind 

 the middle is oblique, rounded on the lower part. Pro- and 

 mesonotum closely and rugosely punctured ; there is a smooth 

 keel in the middle ; there is a furrow on either side of it on the 

 apical half. Scutellum roundly convex, coarsely rugosely 

 punctured. Median segment reticulated ; the basal area short, 

 not reaching beyond the middle ; its basal third widened. 

 Propleura? smooth ; the upper part at the base bordered by an 

 oblique keel. Mesopleurge thickly covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence, the base smooth ; there is a wide oblique depression. Legs 

 thickly covered with white hair ; the calcaria pale. Wings 

 fuscous-violaceous, paler at the base ; the third cubital cellule 

 at the top and bottom distinctly shorter than the second ; the 

 first transverse cubital nervure is almost straight, and oblique ; 

 the second is roundly bent outwardly in the middle ; both the 

 recurrent nervures are received shortly beyond the middle. 

 Abdomen thickly covered with white hair ; the hair on the 

 apical two segments is black ; the basal two segments and the 

 base of the third are rufous ; the ventral keel is roundly curved 

 and narrowed at the base ; the last dorsal segment has no area : 

 its lower surface is flat. 



