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  CAMERON, 
  Hymenoptera 
  Orientalia. 
  

  

  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  other 
  segments 
  are 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   longish 
  black 
  hair. 
  

  

  MUTILLA 
  MONTANATA, 
  Sp. 
  flOV. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  prothorace, 
  mesonoto, 
  scutello, 
  viesopleurisque 
  

   supra 
  rufis 
  ; 
  alis 
  fusco-violaceis 
  ; 
  tegulis 
  rufis. 
  $. 
  

  

  Long. 
  1 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  short, 
  stout, 
  distinctly 
  tapering 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  

   flagellum 
  more 
  thickly 
  with 
  short 
  pale 
  pubescence. 
  The 
  

   middle 
  of 
  the 
  vertex 
  is 
  smooth 
  ; 
  the 
  part 
  behind 
  the 
  

   ocellus 
  is 
  carinate, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  depression 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  

   it 
  ; 
  in 
  front 
  is 
  a 
  deeper 
  and 
  wider 
  furrow, 
  which 
  is 
  widest 
  

   behind 
  ; 
  the 
  lateral 
  ocelli 
  are 
  placed 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  

   furrow 
  bordering 
  the 
  ocellar 
  region. 
  The 
  vertex 
  is 
  covered 
  

   with 
  long 
  fuscous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  more 
  thickly 
  with 
  pale 
  

   fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  thickly 
  with 
  silvery 
  hair. 
  

   Thorax 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  and 
  

   scutellum 
  and 
  the 
  mesopleurae 
  — 
  broadest 
  in 
  front 
  — 
  

   immediately 
  under 
  the 
  wings, 
  rufous. 
  Fronotum 
  rugosely 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  not 
  quite 
  so 
  strongly 
  or 
  

   deeply, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  punctures 
  running 
  into 
  reticulations. 
  

   The 
  scutellum 
  is 
  similarly 
  punctured. 
  Median 
  segment 
  

   closely 
  and 
  almost 
  uniformly 
  reticulated 
  ; 
  the 
  central 
  area 
  

   at 
  the 
  base 
  is 
  rounded 
  and 
  not 
  much 
  narrowed 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex. 
  Propleurae 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  smooth 
  ; 
  

   in 
  the 
  hollow 
  are 
  four 
  irregular 
  keels. 
  Mesopleurae 
  closely 
  

   rugosely 
  punctured, 
  except 
  below 
  the 
  hind 
  wings, 
  where 
  

   there 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  smooth 
  space, 
  divided 
  into 
  two 
  by 
  a 
  

   narrow 
  curved 
  keel. 
  Metapleurae 
  reticulated. 
  Legs 
  

   black 
  ; 
  calcaria 
  pale 
  ; 
  the 
  hair 
  thick, 
  long, 
  and 
  pale 
  

   fulvous. 
  Abdomen 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  two 
  segments 
  fringed 
  

   with 
  a 
  broad 
  belt 
  of 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  third 
  segment 
  

  

  