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legs are thickly covered with glistening white hair ; the tibial spines are sharp, long, 

 and fulvous. 



15. Mutilla prominens. 



Nigra ; thorace ferrugineo ; antennis nigris, basi rufa ; abdominis maculis fulvis. 5 . 

 Long. 8 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, Capetillo {Rodriguez). 



Head not much wider than the thorax, rugosely punctured, bearing pale fulvous 

 hair; the basal half of the mandibles ferruginous, the apical half black; the eyes 

 moderate in size, not reaching to the top of the head, which is roundly narrowed behind 

 them. The antennal tubercles and the first three joints of the antennge ferruginous; 

 the scape with some white hairs, the flagellum with a pale down; the third joint 

 nearly twice the length of the fourth. The thorax above coarsely punctured ; the 

 mesopleurse impunctate and shining ; the mesonotum in front with fuscous, behind, and 

 also the median segment, with silvery hair ; the sides almost straight ; the apex of the 

 pronotum rounded ; the median segment oblique at the apex, the middle not so strongly 

 punctured as the sides. The abdomen wider than the thorax ; the basal segment 

 oblique, sparsely covered with long pale hairs ; the apex with a belt of pale golden 

 hair. The second segment is coarsely alutaceous, and covered above with some 

 blackish, at the sides with silvery, hair ; at the base are two large fulvous marks, and 

 there is a broad fulvous belt at the apex. The third to the fifth segments have a large 

 squarish mark on either side, not continuous, and those on the fifth unite at the apex. 

 The pygidium is longitudinally striated and fringed laterally with pale fulvous hair. 

 The ventral surface is ferruginous ; the segments all punctured at the apex, the second 

 also sparsely at the base, and fringed at the apex with fulvous hairs. The femora 

 sparsely, the tibiae and tarsi more thickly, covered with pale fulvous-white hair ; the 

 tibial spines long and sharp. 



Allied to M. centralis, but smaller, and with the slope of the median segment more 

 abrupt, the markings on the abdomen golden (not white), and the pygidium longitu- 

 dinally striolate (not punctured). 



16. Mutilla lilea. 



Nigra ; tborace ferrugineo, subtus et apiee nigro-macnlatis ; abdominis maculis albis. $ . 

 Long. 7 millim. 



Hab. Panama, San Feliz in Chiriqui (Champion). 



Head a little wider than the thorax, finely rugose, covered with long pale hairs, and 

 on the vertex there is a close pale fulvous pubescence ; the basal half of the mandibles 

 ferruginous. The eyes large, reaching to the top of the head, which is somewhat 

 obliquely narrowed behind them. The scape of the antennae is distinctly curved and 



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