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nervure about the middle; the third submarginal distinctly defined, 

 short, pointed at tip and much narrowed beneath and receiving the 

 second recurrent nervure. Legs black or piceous-black, the femora 

 beneath fringed with long greyish pubescence, the tibiae and tarsi with 

 blackish pubescence. Abdomen ovate, black, closely punctured, the 

 large basal segment shining, clothed with a very thin black pubescence; 

 apical margins of all the segments, both above and beneath, fringed 

 with long golden pubescence. Length 4 5 lines; expanse of wings 7£ 

 lines. 



One specimen. A very distinct species, easily recognized by the red 

 thorax, with its golden pubescence, as well as of the apical margins of 

 the abdominal segments. It is closely allied to M. fnhohlrta, but quite 

 distinct by the coloration of the thorax and by the different shape of 

 the marginal and submarginal cells of the anterior wings. 



11. Mutilla Bellona. n. sp. 



Rufo-piceous; head, thorax and the large basal segment of abdomen above 

 with rufo-ferruginous pubescence; antenna? and legs black; base and apex of 

 abdomen black, the segments above and beneath fringed with yellowish pu- 

 bescence. 



Female. — Rufo-piceous, closely and deeply punctured; head not 

 wider than the thorax, clothed above the antennae with a long, dense 

 rufo-ferruginous pubescence, beneath the antennae and on the cheeks, 

 the pubescence is black and scattered ; eyes small, rounded, entire, con- 

 vex and polished; mandibles black, smooth and polished; antennae 

 deep black, the flagellum subsericeous. Thorax ovate, slightly nar- 

 rowed behind, clothed above with a long, dense rufo-ferruginous pu- 

 bescence, longer on the summit of the metathorax, which is abruptly 

 truncate behind ; sides of the thorax sparsely clothed with long black 

 pubescence, beneath it is more or less mixed with pale yellowish. Legs 

 black, clothed with black pubescence, slightly mixed with pale yellow- 

 ish, especially on the femora beneath ; base of the coxae rufo-piceous. 

 Abdomen ovate, closely punctured; the large basal segment above 

 clothed with a dense rufo-ferruginous pubescence ; the node, the ex- 

 treme base of the large basal segment and the apical segments above 

 more or less clothed with black pubescence, except the apical margins 

 of all the segments above and beneath, where the pubescence is pale 

 yellowish ; sometimes the pubescence of the third segment above is 

 tinged with reddish ; the node beneath and the large ventral segment 

 has a scattered pale yellowish pubescence; the node above is black or 

 piceous-black, circular and rugose at tip. and smooth, shining and de- 

 pressed at base. Length 6 — 7 lines. 



