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4. Mutilla Ulkei, n. sp. 



Black, with a silvery pile, very dense on sides of thorax, disk of metathorax 

 and of abdomen, and on apical segments; metathorax behind, posterior tibise 

 and tarsi, and the abdomen, ferruginous: head large. 



Female. — Head large, broader than the thorax, black, densely and 

 coarsely punctured, with a very fine, appressed. silvery pile, glittering 

 in certain lights, and a sparse, erect, black pubescence; on the clypeus 

 the pubescence is long, dense, and tinged with reddish ; eyes small, 

 rounded, entire and convex; mandibles black, red at base; antennae 

 piceous, the flagellum sericeous, the scape clothed with a silvery pube- 

 scence. Thorax broad and truncate in front, narrowed behind, covered 

 with dense large punctures, and clothed with a sparse, erect, black pu- 

 bescence; disk of the metathorax rounded off, with a central patch of 

 silvery-cinereous pubescence, the posterior face flattened and strongly 

 tinged with reddish ; sides of the thorax with a very dense, fine, ap- 

 pressed, silvery-cinereous pile, especially in the excavations. Legs 

 piceous black, with a long, thin, cinereous pubescence; posterior tibiae 

 and tarsi rufous, the former with a double row of long blackish spines ; 

 tips of the tarsal joints spinose and blackish. Abdomen ovate, ferru- 

 ginous, densely and coarsely punctured, the large basal segment tinged 

 with honey-yellow, especially above ; the whole abdomen has, above, a 

 sparse, rather long, erect, blackish pubescence; beneath, the pubescence 

 is cinereous and very dense on the apical segments ; above, the apical 

 margin of the small basal segment, a subobsolete patch on the basal 

 middle of the large basal segment, extending narrowly to the apex, and 

 a patch on the middle of the remaining segments, which extends along 

 the apical margins of the segments, all of silvery-cinereous pubescence ; 

 the node moderate, of nearly equal width, much depressed, tinged witb 

 fuscous, and with a rather large, obtuse tubercle on each side at base. 

 Length 5 J lines. 



Hab. — Cape St. Lucas, Lower California. .Mr. H. Like. (Coll. 

 Ent. Soc. Philad.) 



One specimen. I take pleasure in naming this pretty and very dis- 

 tinct species after my kind friend Mr. Henry Like, from whom T have 

 received much assistance in my entomological studies. 



5. Mutilla connectens, n. sp. 



Obscure ferruginous; head and abdomen densely clothed with golden-serice- 

 ous pubescence ; head large, broader than the thorax : abdomen with two large 

 fuscous spots, connected by a narrow line. 



Female. — Ferruginous or fusco-ferruginous, closely and rather finely 



punctured; head large, quadrate, wider than the thorax, clothed with 



a short, dense, golden-sericeous pubescence ; eyes small, round, entire 



