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Cameron, Hymenoptera Ovientalia. 



and apex of the mesopleurae ; the metapleurse coarsely 

 reticulated. The legs are thickly covered with white hair. 

 The basal two segments of the abdomen above are some- 

 what strongly punctured ; the punctations becoming 

 weaker towards their apices ; all the segments at their 

 apices are fringed with silvery hairs. The apical dorsal 

 segment terminates in the middle in a triangular depression, 

 with raised stout lateral keels, and with a central keel not 

 half the width of the lateral ones. The second ventral 

 segment is coarsely punctured ; the sides at the base 

 depressed, and with an indistinct keel between ; the keel 

 on the basal segment broad ; the basal part the longest. 

 Tegulse large, rather strongly punctured. The wings are 

 strongly fusco-violaceous, more lightly coloured at the 

 base; the basal abscissa of the radius sharply oblique, the 

 apical curved; the first transverse cubital nervure oblique, 

 the second almost straight ; the third sharply angled in 

 the middle ; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly 

 before, the second at a slightly greater distance beyond 

 the middle of the cellule. 



MUTILLA PROVIDA, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra, pro- meso-thorace mesonotoque rufis ; alis fere 

 fumatis. 6 . Long, fere 7 mm. 



Hab. Bombay Presidency (Wroughton). 



Comes very near to M. dilecta ; but is easily known 

 from it by the black scutellum and metathorax. 



Head as wide as the mesothorax ; entirely black, 

 except the antennal tubercles, which are rufous ; densely 

 covered all over with long soft white hairs ; rounded 

 behind, where it is as long as the eyes ; the palpi 

 fuscous ; the mandibles before the teeth rufous. Antennae 

 black ; the scape with some white hairs ; the flagellum 

 with a fuscous down. Pro- and mesothorax coarsely 

 punctured, covered with long white hairs ; ferruginous, 



