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punctured; the apices of the ventral segments fringed with white hair. The legs 

 covered with white hairs ; the tibial spines slender, sharp, fulvous. 



9. Mutilla leona. 



Mutilla leona, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 230 \ xiii. p. 200 2 . 

 Sab. Mexico (Sumichrast 1 2 ). 



10. Mutilla daedala. (Tab. xiii. fig. 9, $ .) 



Ferruginea ; abdomine nigro, subtus rufo, supra late cuneo-maculato. $ . 

 Long, fere 8 millim. 



Sab. Mexico, North Yucatan {Gaumer). 



Head as wide as the thorax, closely covered with large, deep, roundish punctures, 

 and sparsely clothed with long black hairs, the oral region with long fulvous hair. 

 Eyes large, prominent, the head obliquely narrowed behind them. The antennae stout, 

 black, the flagellum dull piceous beneath ; the scape punctured, shining, bearing long 

 white hair ; the third joint one half longer than the fourth. Thorax very coarsely 

 punctured, covered with long black hair, the hair on the median segment paler ; the 

 mesopleurse impunctate, covered with white pubescence. The sides of the thorax 

 straight, if anything a little dilated towards the apex, which has an abruptly rounded 

 slope, and has the punctures longer and deeper than they are on the mesonotum. The 

 abdomen is longer than the head and thorax united. The basal segment is ferru- 

 ginous, its apex with a band of golden pubescence. The second segment is coarsely 

 alutaceous above, the sides with large punctures ; on the base are two large broadly 

 oval golden marks, which extend near to the middle ; the apex has a broad golden 

 band which occupies more than one third of the length of the segment. The other 

 segments are golden, except for a wedge-shaped black mark in the middle ; the fourth 

 segment above at the base is black, with the extreme base ferruginous, and is closely 

 punctured. The pygidium is ferruginous, finely punctured, and fringed laterally with 

 long fulvous hair. The ventral segments are ferruginous at the base (the second to 

 the extreme apex) ; the second segment is coarsely and deeply punctured ; the others 

 are more finely punctured and fringed with golden hair. The legs are covered with 

 glistening white hairs ; the tibial spines are black. 



M. leona agrees, judging from the description, closely with this species ; but the two 

 are, I think, distinct : e. g. M. leona is only 5*5 millim. in length ; the punctures on 

 the head are described as " elongate " (while in M. dcedala they are round). Moreover, 

 in M. dcedala the median segment is not " reticulate " ; the second abdominal segment 

 has two large broadly ovate marks (instead of " two short longitudinal stripes ") ; and, 

 lastly, the abdomen is not " ovate," but broadly dilated at the base, becoming sharply 

 narrowed from the second segment. In neither of his descriptions does Blake describe 

 the colour of the antennae nor of the tibial spines. 



