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MUTILLA REMOTA, Sp. 1IOV. 



Long. 15 mm. 2 . 



Hab. Trincomali (Yerbury). 



Comes very near to M. egregia Sauss., in the colora- 

 tion of the abdomen and in the sides of the thorax having 

 a stout spine ; but differs in having the head and thorax 

 entirely black, not red. 



Head narrower than the thorax, deep black, coarsely 

 rugosely punctured, thickly covered with long black, inter- 

 mixed on the front with shorter golden hairs ; the orbits 

 on the outer side narrowly rufous. Antennal scape rufous, 

 covered with long golden hairs. Thorax at the base 

 narrower than the head, becoming gradually wider to the 

 spines, then becoming rather abruptly narrower to the 

 apex ; coarsely rugosely punctured, sparsely covered with 

 long black hairs; the apex of the median segment with an 

 abrupt oblique slope ; coarsely rugosely punctured ; the 

 hairs long ; on the upper part black, on the lower golden. 

 The pro- and meso-pleurae rugosely punctured ; the latter 

 projecting in the middle and ending at the top in a stout 

 rufous spine ; the space beyond the spine a little hollowed 

 and finely transversely striated ; the metapleurse entirely 

 rugosely punctured. The legs black ; the tibiae rufous ; 

 the femora covered with long black hairs ; the tibiae and 

 tarsi more thickly with long golden hairs. The petiole 

 narrow at the base, gradually dilated to the apex ; thickly 

 covered with long golden fulvous hairs, broadly at the 

 apex, ~ narrowly at the base ; the intermediate space 

 covered with long black hairs. Second segment coarsely 

 punctured; covered with short black hairs; the apex with 

 a belt of golden pubescence ; the fourth segment covered 

 with golden pubescence ; the other segments covered 

 with long black hairs. The basal two ventral segments 

 covered with fuscous ; the third and fourth covered with 

 golden pubescence. 



