﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliv. 
  (1900), 
  No. 
  15. 
  67 
  

  

  punctured 
  ; 
  its 
  basal 
  teeth 
  are 
  stout 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  keel 
  is 
  

   large 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  roundly 
  depressed 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  pro- 
  

   jects 
  more 
  and 
  is 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  its 
  apical 
  part 
  

   is 
  longer 
  and 
  projects 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  basal. 
  The 
  pygidium 
  

   is 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  which 
  is 
  

   smooth 
  and 
  shining 
  ; 
  its 
  apex 
  is 
  depressed 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  rufous. 
  

  

  MUTILLA 
  POESIA, 
  Sp. 
  HOV. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  pronoto, 
  scntello 
  segmentoque 
  mediali 
  rufts; 
  alis 
  

   fusco-Jiyalinis, 
  nervis 
  nigris. 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Long. 
  7 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Barrackpore 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  In 
  Bingham's 
  arrangement 
  (p. 
  10) 
  under 
  C 
  this 
  species 
  

   might 
  form 
  a 
  new 
  " 
  Section 
  c. 
  : 
  Thorax 
  anteriorly 
  and 
  

   posteriorly 
  red." 
  

  

  Scape 
  of 
  antennae 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  

   hair 
  ; 
  the 
  fiagellum 
  thickly 
  with 
  pale 
  down 
  ; 
  stout 
  ; 
  the 
  

   third 
  joint 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  fourth. 
  Head 
  black 
  ; 
  if 
  any- 
  

   thing, 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  thorax 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  broadly 
  and 
  

   distinctly 
  furrowed 
  down 
  the 
  middle, 
  strongly 
  and 
  closely 
  

   punctured, 
  and 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair; 
  the 
  ocellar 
  

   region 
  raised, 
  the 
  raised 
  part 
  extending 
  behind 
  to 
  the 
  

   occiput 
  and 
  obscurely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  

   vertex 
  strongly 
  punctured. 
  Occiput 
  sharply 
  margined. 
  

   Pro- 
  and 
  meso-notum 
  shining, 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  

   pronotum 
  red 
  above, 
  except 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  edges 
  behind 
  

   and 
  the 
  base 
  laterally 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  longish 
  

   white 
  hair. 
  Mesonotum 
  shining, 
  strongly 
  and 
  deeply 
  

   punctured; 
  the 
  furrows 
  obsolete. 
  Scutellum 
  rufous, 
  strongly 
  

   and 
  deeply 
  punctured 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  pale 
  hairs. 
  

   Metathorax 
  entirely 
  rufous 
  ; 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  strongly 
  

   reticulated 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  central 
  area 
  is 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  wide 
  ; 
  

   the 
  sides 
  straight 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  triangular 
  ; 
  the 
  keels 
  issuing 
  

  

  