236 CHAS. A. BLAKE. 



cell small, abruptly truncate at tip; first subniarginal larger than the mar- 

 ginal, second sub-triangular, receiving the first recurrent nervure, near the 

 first submarginal, third distinct, and extending beyond the naarginal. Legs 

 black, with black hairs. Abdomen ovate, basal segment clothed with erect 

 black hairs, apical half of second, and the following segments clothed with 

 long, coarse, scarlet pubescence, underside, black, shining. Length 5 lines, ex- 

 panse of wings 9J lines. 



i^e?w«/e.— ^Same as the male, with the exception of the second segment of the 

 abdomen being entirely covered with coarse scarlet pubescence Length 4 — 6 

 lines. 



Hah. — California. Mr. liilich. 



Closely allied to fuholiirta, Cress., but may be distiugnished by the 

 marginal cell being smaller, and the clothing much coarser. 

 33. Mutilla Sumichrasti, Sauss. Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., 4th Series, Tom. VIL p. 

 357, pi. 8, figs. 7—8, % 9 . 



Male. — Head aud thorax black, clothed with ochraceous pubescence, meso- 

 thorax black ; wings hyaline, clouded at apex, marginal cell short, truncate at 

 tip. Abdomen above clothed with scarlet pubescence, apex black. Eyes round. 

 Length 6 lines ; expanse of wings 8 lines. 



Female. — Head subquadrate, posterior angles rounded, clothed with dense 



^~iy ochraceous pubescence; eyes round, convex, {tolished; antennse black. 

 ^^ Thorax short, subquadrate, somewhat wider than the head, narrowed 



ytq posteriorly, disc clothed with black pubescence, margined laterally 



_-T and posteriorly with ochraceous. Legs black, clothed with yellowish 

 ({MSk\ hairs. Abdomen ovate, second segment clothed with dense ochraceous 

 l_^^-j pubescence, having on the disc a bilobate patch of black, somewhat re- 

 ^Hr sembling a horseshoe in form, extending to the anterior margin, third 



^ and fourth segments with black pubescence, the remaining ones ochra- 

 ceous, apex black. Length 4 — 6 lines. 



Bah. — Mexico. 



34. Mutilla occidentalis, Linn. Syst, Nat. I, 966. St. Farg. Hym. Ill, 595. 1. 1.36. 

 . M. coccinea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II, 966. 1 Beauv. Ins- p. 259. t. 10, fig. 1 -J, ,2 9 . 



Hah. — North America. A very common species. 



35. Mutilla Creusa, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. IV, p. 431. 



Female. — Black ; head, thorax and second abdominal segment above, clothed 

 with pale feirngiiious pubescence; eyes round. Length 7A lines. 

 Ilnh. — Colorado. 



36. Mutilla medea, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. IV, p. 432. 



Female. — Black; thorax and second abdominal segment, pale ferruginous • 

 eyes round. Length 6 — 7 lines. 

 Hdh. — Colorado. 



37. Mutilla bioculata, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. IV, p. 431. 



Male. — Large, black, pubescence black. Thorax and second abdominal seg- 

 ment with fulvous pubescence, wings blackish, eyes round. Length 5 — 8 lines, 

 expanse of wings 9 — 1 ;U lines. 

 JJah. — Colorado. 



