COLLECTED IN BORNEO, ETC. 83 



what obliquely ; the metathorax with two long, rather slender, very 

 acute spines ; the thorax and legs thinly sprinkled with vei7 long 

 ferruginous hairs ; the abdomen sprinkled with long erect ferruginous 

 ^ hairs, the nodes rugose. 

 Var. a. The femora rufo-fuscous. 

 Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir). 



To this species Mr. Wallace attached a ticket, upon which he had 

 written " House Ant : '* but I have not obtained any further information . 



Fam. MUTILLIDiE. 



Gren. MuTiLLA, Idnn. 



1. Mutilla blanda. Smith, Cat, Hym. pt. iii. p. 32. 

 Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir). India. 



2. Mutilla repraesentans. Smith, Cat. Hym. iii. p. 35. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). Malacca. India. 



3. Mutilla Deidamia. M. nigra ; scapo, mandibulis, thorace, pedibus 

 abdominisque segmento basali rubris. 



Female. Length 3-4 lines. Head black ; the scape, palpi and mandi- 

 bles, ferruginous, tips of the latter black ; the flagellura ferruginous^ 

 towards the apex beneath. Thorax : elongate-quadrate, slightly 

 widened behind, above rugose, the lateral margins crenulated; sprinkled 

 with reddish-brown pubescence ; the legs ferruginous, thinly sprinkled 

 with a mixture of reddish and of glittering white hairs. Abdomen : 

 black, the basal segment red ; three ovate spots of silvery white pu- 

 bescence placed transversely towards the base of the second segment, 

 and a broad fascia of the same at the base of the third segment ; at 

 the base, apex and beneath, a scattered glittering white pubescence. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



4. Mutilla Urania. M. capite thoraceque sanguineis ; abdomine 

 nigro, basi segment! secundi macula ovata, fasciaque segmenti tertii, 

 flavescenti-albis. 



Female. Length 6i Hnes. Head and thorax blood-red and coarsely 

 rugose ; the mandibles and antennae black ; the flagellum obscurely 

 red beneath. Thorax : the legs black and covered with glittering 

 yellowish-white pubescence. Abdomen : longitudinally rugose, a re- 

 versed heart-shaped spot at the base of the second segment, and the 

 third covered with yellowish-white pubescence; a triangular black 

 spot at the base of the third segment in the middle ; beneath, the seg- 

 ments are fringed with long pale hairs ; the apical margins of the seg- 

 ments of the abdomen with a sooty-black pubescence. 



Male. Length 5-5| lines. This sex has the head nearly, or quite black ; 



