﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliv. 
  (1900), 
  No. 
  15. 
  

  

  XV. 
  Hymenoptera 
  Orientalia, 
  or 
  Contributions 
  to 
  the 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  Hymenoptera 
  of 
  the 
  Oriental 
  

   Zoological 
  Region. 
  Part 
  IX. 
  

  

  The 
  Hymenoptera 
  of 
  the 
  Khasia 
  Hills. 
  Part 
  II. 
  

   Section 
  1. 
  

  

  By 
  P. 
  Cameron. 
  

  

  {Communicated 
  by 
  J. 
  Cosmo 
  Melvill, 
  M.A., 
  F.Z.S.] 
  

   Received 
  October 
  10th, 
  read 
  October 
  31st, 
  i8gg. 
  

  

  MUTILLIDiE. 
  

  

  The 
  Khasia 
  MntillidcB 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  are 
  all 
  males, 
  

   the 
  native 
  collectors 
  apparently 
  gathering 
  only 
  winged 
  

   insects. 
  

  

  A. 
  The 
  GROUP 
  of 
  M. 
  sexmaculata. 
  Large 
  species, 
  

   black, 
  with 
  ferruginous 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

   scutellum 
  gibbous; 
  the 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  

   fringed 
  with 
  rufous 
  hair. 
  

  

  yj 
  MUTILLA 
  EMPIRICA, 
  Sp. 
  HOV. 
  

  

  Nigra; 
  dense 
  albo-pilosa, 
  vertice 
  mesonotoque 
  longe 
  

   nigro-pilosis 
  ; 
  abdomine 
  ferrugineo, 
  basi 
  apiceque 
  nigris; 
  

   alis 
  violaceis 
  $ 
  

  

  Long. 
  18 
  mm. 
  

  

  Scape 
  of 
  antennae 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  

  

  hair, 
  grooved 
  beneath; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  opaque, 
  covered 
  

  

  with 
  a 
  microscopic 
  pile. 
  The 
  front 
  and 
  vertex 
  covered 
  

  

  A 
  

   October 
  gth, 
  igoo. 
  

  

  