﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliv. 
  (1900), 
  No. 
  15. 
  65 
  

  

  punctured, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  hair, 
  

   that 
  on 
  the 
  apex 
  is 
  longer 
  and 
  paler. 
  Post-scutellum 
  

   aciculated. 
  Median 
  segment 
  reticulated 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  third 
  of 
  

   the 
  central 
  area 
  is 
  widened 
  ; 
  the 
  lateral 
  keels 
  roundly 
  

   curved 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  segment 
  is 
  strongly 
  reticulated. 
  

   On 
  the 
  propleurse 
  are 
  seven 
  stout, 
  distinctly 
  separated 
  

   striae 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  is 
  indistinct, 
  the 
  middle 
  one 
  not 
  half 
  

   the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  others. 
  Wings 
  uniformly 
  dark 
  fusco- 
  

   violaceous 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  is 
  shortly, 
  

   but 
  distinctly, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  third 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  

   nervure 
  is 
  received 
  near 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  fourth 
  ; 
  the 
  

   second 
  near 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  third. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  calcaria 
  and 
  spines 
  pale. 
  

   Abdomen 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  petiole, 
  the 
  second, 
  

   third, 
  and 
  the 
  fourth 
  segments, 
  ferruginous 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  

   segments 
  fringed 
  with 
  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  pygidium 
  in 
  

   the 
  middle 
  is 
  a 
  smooth, 
  slightly 
  raised 
  part 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  is 
  

   smooth 
  and 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  hypopygium 
  is 
  

   keeled 
  laterally 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  In 
  Bingham's 
  table 
  (p. 
  9) 
  this 
  species 
  forms 
  a 
  new 
  

   Section 
  : 
  " 
  Second 
  to 
  fourth 
  segments 
  red." 
  

  

  MUTILLA 
  MACULICORNIS, 
  Sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  dense 
  albo-pilosa 
  ; 
  antennis 
  rnfo-maculatis 
  ; 
  

   abdomine 
  ferragineo, 
  apice 
  nigro 
  ; 
  a/is 
  fnsco-violaceis 
  y 
  

   basi 
  hyalinis. 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Long. 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Barrackpore 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  Antennas 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  scape 
  and 
  

   the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  fiagellum 
  rufous 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  joints 
  of 
  the 
  

   flagellum 
  brownish 
  beneath 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  shining, 
  punctured, 
  

   sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  fiagellum 
  opaque, 
  

   covered 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  microscopic 
  down 
  ; 
  the 
  third 
  joint 
  is 
  

  

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