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Black, with rod thorax ; no wings, head very large, tegulse quite 

 rudimentary, no trace of ocelli proscrpina. 



A.-. ABDOMEN WITH AN APICAL AND TWO LATERAL OR MEDIAN- 

 PATCHES ON THE SECOND SEGMENT. (No males.) 



A'. ABDOMEN SESSILE, BASAL SEGMENT WITH TWO LATERAL 



PATCHES. 



b. Second and third segment with a lateral patch. 



Black ; prothorax and mesothorax and scutellum red, posterior 

 angles of thorax very sharp and projecting, first, third and fourth 

 abdominal segments with a lateral white patch on each side . . . . crinnys. 



FIRST DIVISION. 



I. 



(FEMALES AND MALES.) 

 MUTILLA CAPICOLA. 



Female. Head, antennas, abdomen, legs, and tarsi black, thorax 

 dark ferruginous red ; head slightly attenuate laterally, but with the 

 sides straight and the posterior angles well defined, broader than 

 long, and as broad as the base of the prothorax, posterior margin 

 straight, very closely and deeply scrobiculate, pilose in front and 

 underneath, pubescent only in the posterior part ; eyes subovate, 

 large, prominent ; prothorax straight at base, gradually ampliated 

 and rounded from the basal outer angle to about the median part, 

 which is about one-fifth broader than the base, narrowed diagonally 

 from there to the moderately abrupt apical dehiscence, where it is 

 only one-half as broad as the apex, deeply and closely foveate, set 

 with long, black bristles, convex and having three lateral sub- 

 median tubercles, the posterior one of which is a little sharp 

 and situated at about the median part, the other two are elongate 

 and hardly prominent ; abdomen covered with long, black hairs, 

 turning to greyish underneath, first segment moderately long, 

 strongly petiolate, spinose laterally at base, scrobiculate and with a 

 moderately broad apical silky white band, second segment globose 

 and covered with deep, sub-elongate fovese, the intervals of which 

 are raised, sharp, and form longitudinal sub-undulating lines, apical 

 margin with a narrow band of white hairs all round, apex of the 

 third and fourth segments fringed underneath with a short, greyish 

 pubescence ; abdominal carina of the first segment aculeate at base ; 



