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aureous hairs. The basal ventral segment is coarsely 

 punctured, and has in the middle a projection, which rises 

 a little towards the apex, which is a very little curved; the 

 second segment has distinctly separated punctures ; the 

 others are finely and closely punctured on the apical half 

 and thickly clothed with long pale fulvous hairs. The legs 

 are moderately pilose ; the tibial spines fulvous or pale ; 

 the fore femora are rufous at the sides and beneath in the 

 middle ; the two hinder pairs rufous, except at the base 

 and apex, where they are black. 



In size and form it comes near to M. sex-maculata, but 

 may be known from it by the thorax being entirely red ; 

 and by the third and fourth abdominal segments having 

 interrupted white bands instead of spots ; the marks on 

 the second segment, too, being oval and not elongate. 



MlJTILLA VALIDA, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra, thoracc supra rufo, abdomine albo-bimaculato, 

 basi huge ftdvo-hirto. 2. Long. 8 mm. 

 Hob. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Head slightly wider than the thorax; thickly covered 

 with long, the sides more thickly with silvery pubescence ; 

 behind the eyes it is developed twice the length of the 

 eyes. Scape covered with long white hairs ; the flagellum 

 with fuscous down. Thorax about one half longer than 

 the head, its sides straight ; the pronotum and the apical 

 three-fourths of the median segment black ; the rest 

 reddish ; strongly punctured, almost reticulated ; the apex 

 with an oblique slope ; slightly hollowed, smooth ; the 

 pro- and meta-pleurse coarsely reticulated, the mesopleunu 

 impunctate, smooth ; the lower part thickly covered with 

 white hairs. The basal segment of the abdomen smooth, 

 obscurely shagreened, the apex with a broad, thick band 

 of rich fulvous hair; the second segment with two ova) 

 marks of pale fulvous hairs ; the apex with a Broad 



