5. Mutilla suspiciosa ^HNS.

M. nigra, pubescens; alis fuscis; abdominis segmentis secundo tertioque rubris.

Male. Length 4-7 lines. Black; the eyes slightly emarginate; the head covered with a thin silvery-white pubescence, most sparing on the vertex, which is shining and coarsely punctured. Thorax covered with a silvery pubescence, densely so on the metathorax; the disk of the mesothorax shining, with elongate punctures which run into striae; in the middle are three elongate carinae; the tegulae large and shiningblack; the wings dark fuscous, with a purple iridescence. Abdomen finely punctured; the apical margin of the basal segment, and the second and third segments, red; sprinkled with long glittering silverywhite hairs.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

This species very closely resembles the M. fuscopennis: but I think it is - sufficiently distinct.