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  Cameron, 
  Hymenoptera 
  Orientalia. 
  

  

  Scutellum 
  pyramidal 
  ; 
  its 
  top 
  and 
  base 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  

   smooth, 
  shining, 
  glabrous 
  ; 
  the 
  rest 
  strongly 
  rugosely 
  

   punctured 
  and 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  black 
  hair. 
  The 
  

   median 
  segment 
  is 
  narrowed 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  is 
  coarsely 
  reticu- 
  

   lated, 
  and 
  is 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  black 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  

   central 
  area 
  reaches 
  to 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  oblique 
  apex 
  ; 
  is 
  

   widest 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  the 
  bordering 
  keel 
  is 
  turned 
  up 
  at 
  its 
  

   apex 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  segment 
  has 
  an 
  obliquely 
  rounded 
  

   slope, 
  and 
  is 
  coarsely 
  and 
  stoutly 
  reticulated. 
  Mesopleurae 
  

   coarsely 
  and 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   black 
  hair, 
  largely 
  tuberculate, 
  through 
  roundly 
  bulging 
  

   out 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  and 
  bottom, 
  there 
  being 
  a 
  depression 
  

   between 
  the 
  upper 
  and 
  lower 
  portions. 
  Mesosternum 
  

   closely 
  and 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  which 
  

   is 
  aciculated. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  black 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  

   hair 
  on 
  the 
  tarsi 
  rufous, 
  and 
  they 
  also 
  bear 
  a 
  fulvous 
  

   pubescence. 
  Wings 
  dark 
  violaceous, 
  except 
  for 
  some 
  

   small 
  hyaline 
  streaks 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  and 
  cubital 
  cellules; 
  

   the 
  second 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  is 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  

   the 
  third. 
  Abdomen 
  ferruginous 
  ; 
  the 
  petiole 
  and 
  the 
  

   apical 
  segment, 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  petiole 
  is 
  

   coarsely 
  and 
  deeply 
  punctured, 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  

   black 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  other 
  segments 
  are 
  thickly 
  fringed 
  with 
  

   orange 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  hair 
  on 
  the 
  black 
  apical 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  

   segment 
  is 
  black. 
  The 
  keel 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  

   petiole 
  projects 
  at 
  its 
  apex 
  in 
  a 
  large 
  tooth, 
  which 
  is 
  

   rounded 
  at 
  the 
  point 
  and 
  broader 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  

   ventral 
  segment 
  has 
  an 
  oblique, 
  stout 
  keel 
  bordering 
  the 
  

   sides 
  ; 
  the 
  penultimate 
  segment 
  has 
  a 
  similar, 
  but 
  some- 
  

   what 
  larger, 
  keel 
  on 
  its 
  apical 
  half. 
  

  

  MUTILLA 
  CRESSIDA, 
  Sp. 
  HOV. 
  

   Nigra, 
  capitc 
  tJioraceqnc 
  dense 
  nigro-hirsutis 
  ; 
  abdomine 
  

   fcmigineo, 
  basi 
  apiceque 
  nigris 
  ; 
  a/is 
  violaceis. 
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