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roundly in the middle ; the other segments above in the 

 middle bear silvery spots ; the ventral segments are some- 

 what thickly covered with long silvery pubescence. The 

 legs are covered with longish stiff silvery hairs ; the tibial 

 spines stout; the calcaria pale testaceous. 



Comes nearest to M. regia Sm., of which it may be 

 a variety, but is larger judging by the examples at my 

 disposal; the latter has the flagellum rufous, not black; 

 the legs for the greater part rufous, and the thorax more 

 dilated at the base. The head and thorax want the 

 metallic brassy tint of M. metallica and M. pulchriventris. 



MUTILLA DIVES, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra ; thorace supra fermgineo ; abdomine argenteo- 

 mactdato. 2. Long. 8 mm. 

 Hob. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Antennas entirely black, stout, as long as the head 

 and thorax united. Head a very little narrower than the 

 thorax, coarsely punctured, sparsely covered with fuscous 

 hairs, thorax coarsely rugosely punctured ; the base 

 rounded, the sides not contracted as seen from above ; 

 the mesopleurse excavated, shining, impunctate ; densely 

 covered with long silvery hairs. The median segment 

 sharply oblique ; the metapleurse coarsely rugose ; the 

 propleurse with shallow punctures. Abdomen a little 

 longer than the head and thorax united, deep black, 

 velvety, the base of the second segment with silvery 

 pubescence in the middle ; a somewhat roundish spot 

 above in the middle, and a slightly smaller one at the 

 apex ; the third segment is covered entirety with silvery 

 pubescence ; and the apical segment is fringed with long 

 silvery hairs. Legs entirely black, densely covered with 

 long white hairs. 



Is not unlike M. taprobance but is longer, and has the 

 pleurae entirely black. 



