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Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



white hairs. The basal abdominal segment without a 

 keel sharply separated from the second, which is gradually 

 raised to the obliquely depressed apex, thus leaving a 

 sharp depression between the two. 



b. Fore wings normal, with three transverse cubital 

 new vires. 



MUTILLA INDEFENSA, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra, vertice fulvo-hirta ; collare late abdomineque ferru- 



gineis ; abdominis basi apiceque nigris ; alis fuliginosis. 6 . 

 Long. 17 mm. 



Hob. Bombay District (IVrotcghton) . 



Head a little narrower than the thorax ; the vertex 

 and front densely covered with fulvous pubescence, inter- 

 mixed with long fuscous hair ; the clypeus sharply keeled 

 in the middle ; the mandibles entirely black, fringed with 

 long golden hairs. Antennae entirely black, the scape 

 widely grooved ; sparsely covered with long fuscous hairs. 

 The head behind the eyes is rapidly narrowed, and is not 

 half the length of the eyes. The pronotum is broadly 

 covered with thick orange pubescence ; the pleurae at the 

 base coarsely punctured ; the rest is longitudinally strio- 

 lated. Mesonotum coarsely punctured especially towards 

 the apex ; there are two moderately wide longitudinal 

 furrows. Scutellum pyramidal ; coarsely rugosely punc- 

 tured ; and, like the mesonotum, thickly covered with 

 long black hairs. Median segment coarsely reticulated ; 

 its base thickly covered with golden hairs ; the centre 

 with an elongated area reaching to the edge of the slope, 

 which is oblique. Mesopleurae coarsely punctured, covered 

 with silvery pubescence; the apex impunctate ; the base of 

 the metapleurae impunctate; the apex coarsely reticulated. 

 Legs black ; the calcaria white ; the femora, tibiae, and 

 tarsi thickly covered with long white hairs. Wings fusco- 

 violaceous, paler at the base ; the basal abscissa of the 



