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especially at tip, with a short, appressed, pale ochraceous pubescence. 

 Length 6 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Gundlach. One specimen. 



Mutilla palliceps, n. sp. 



Rufo-ferruginous ; antennae, legs and thorax above, brownish ; head, apical 

 margins of the first and second, and sides of the remaining segments of abdo- 

 men, ochraceous : abdomen with several black spots on the middle. 



Female. — Head densely clothed with pale ochraceous pubescence ; 

 mouth and antennae rufo-piceous. the latter blackish towards the tips. 

 Thorax densely and roughly punctured, blackish-brown above, clothed 

 with reddish pubescence, beneath and behind rufo-piceous. sides without 

 distinct tubercles ; pleura concave ; metathorax subquadrate, scarcely 

 narrowed behind, the posterior face rather abrupt, the lateral margins 

 dentate. Legs rufo-piceous, clothed with ochraceous pubescence; the 

 tibiae with a row of long acute spines. Abdomen subovate, much nar- 

 rowed towards the tip, convex above, closely punctured; basal segment 

 small, somewhat companulate, black, with the posterior margin densely 

 clothed with ochraceous pubescence, the base with a stout obtuse tu- 

 bercle on each side; second segment large, rufo-ferruginous, thinly 

 clothed with ochraceous pubescence, on the basal middle a subquadrate 

 black patch, slightly margined on each side with ochraceous, the apical 

 margin densely clothed with ochraceous pubescence, margined before 

 with black, which is deeply cvenulated behind, especially on the middle ; 

 remaining segments densely clothed with ochraceous pubescence, with 

 a large patch of black pubescence on the disk of the third, fourth and 

 fifth segments, largest on the third segment; beneath ferruginous, the 

 apical margins of the segments fringed with ochraceous pubescence. 

 Length 4} lines. , 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Mutilla Wilsoni, n. sp. 



Black; head, prothorax, pleura, base of metathorax, base of second and the 

 third and fourth segments of abdomen, clothed with silvery white pubescence; 

 wings hyaline, the anterior pair with the apex and a median band, fuscous. 



Male. — Deep shining black ; head small, subglobose, rather densely 

 clothed with silvery-cinereous pubescence; eyes small, rounded, promi- 

 nent and olive-green ; antennae black. Thorax closely punctured, the 

 prothorax broad and rather densely clothed with silvery-white pube- 

 scence, as well as the pleura ; mesothorax deeply punctured, clothed 

 with short black pubescence ; scutellum clothed with long cinereous 

 pubescence, with its anterior margin flattened, smooth and shining, and 

 armed on each extreme side with a stout tooth, obtusely bifid or constricted 



