﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliv. 
  (1900), 
  No. 
  15. 
  63 
  

  

  MUTILLA 
  SERENA, 
  Sp. 
  nov. 
  

   Nigra, 
  capite 
  tJwraceque 
  dense 
  longe 
  albopilosis, 
  abdo- 
  

   minis 
  segmentis 
  2 
  — 
  4. 
  rufis 
  ; 
  a/is 
  fusco-violaceis. 
  & 
  . 
  

   Long. 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Barrackpore 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  Scape 
  of 
  antennae 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  

   hair 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  down. 
  Vertex 
  strongly 
  

   punctured, 
  more 
  sparsely 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  and 
  behind 
  the 
  

   ocelli 
  ; 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  is 
  

   not 
  so 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  and 
  much 
  more 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  longer 
  pale 
  hair. 
  Face 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  glabrous 
  

   and 
  broadly 
  carinate 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Clypeus 
  smooth, 
  

   shining, 
  depressed 
  broadly 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  behind, 
  except 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Mandibles 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  silvery 
  pubescence. 
  Pronotum 
  coarsely 
  reticulated 
  ; 
  

   its 
  base 
  smooth 
  ; 
  propleurse 
  rugosely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  

   middle 
  with 
  widely 
  separated 
  keels 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  smooth. 
  

   Mesopleurae 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  punctured, 
  the 
  punctures 
  run- 
  

   ning 
  into 
  reticulations, 
  and 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  

   white 
  hair. 
  Apex 
  of 
  metapleurae 
  irregularly 
  reticulated. 
  

   Mesosternum 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  

   metasternal 
  area 
  shining, 
  smooth, 
  stoutly 
  keeled 
  down 
  the 
  

   middle 
  and 
  less 
  distinctly 
  laterally. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  white 
  hair; 
  the 
  spurs 
  white; 
  the 
  tarsal 
  spines 
  rufous. 
  

   Wings 
  uniformly 
  violaceous 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  is, 
  at 
  

   the 
  top, 
  one-fourth 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  second 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  

   transverse 
  cubital 
  nervure 
  is 
  sharply 
  elbowed 
  shortly 
  

   above 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  received 
  

   near 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  third, 
  the 
  second 
  shortly 
  beyond 
  

   the 
  middle. 
  Petiole 
  black, 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  shining, 
  

   punctured, 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  keel 
  

   has 
  a 
  shallow 
  broad 
  curve, 
  and 
  is 
  slightly 
  more 
  raised 
  at 
  

   the 
  apex 
  than 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  The 
  middle 
  segments 
  are 
  

   covered 
  with 
  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  fifth 
  and 
  sixth 
  with 
  white, 
  

  

  