242 CHAS. A. BLAKE. 



gin ovate, the fourth segment and sides of the others clothed with pale golden 

 pubescence; lateral carinse distinct j underside of entire insect clothed with 

 pale hairs. Length 64 lines. 



Hab. — Honduras. Collection of Mr. Norton. 



67. Mutilla Cressoni, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870, Vol. Ill, p. 68. 



Female. — Black; clothed with dense golden pubescence; head sub-quadrate, 

 somewhat narrower than the thorax, posterior angles rounded. Antennpe rufo- 

 piceous, flagellum clothed with scattered glittering hairs. Eyes prominent, 

 polished, rounded. Thorax sub-ovate, narrowed posteriorly, and ab- 

 ruptly truncate, mesothorax with lateral carina?, disc black, coarsely 

 granulate, with a few scattered black hairs, and margined with dark 

 golden pubescence. Abdomen ov^ate, deeply punctured, basal seg- 

 ment black, the apical n>argin fringed with pale pubescence, second 

 segment with two ovate fulvous spots at the basal margin, and a broad 

 f anteriorly emarginate band of the same color near the apical margin, 

 clothed with deep golden pubescence ; third and fourth segments black, 

 with a longitudinal line of paler pubescence, forming the black ground into 

 two lateral quadrate spots: fifth and sixth segments clothed entirely with pale 

 golden pubescence, apex black. Ventral segments fringed with pale golden 

 hairs. Legs black, intermediate and posterior tibise armed with a row of spines, 

 and clothed with long pale hairs. Entire insect beneath clothed with long 

 pale glittering hairs. Length 9 lines. 



Hah. — Mexico. 



58. Mutilla Nortoni, Blake, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. Ill, p. 68. 



Female. — Head rounded, wider than the prothorax, posterior angles more 

 acute than in the preceding species, coarsely punctured, clothed with short 

 golden pubescence, interspersed with longer hairs. Antennae black, naked. 

 Eyes round, prominent, polished. Thorax black, narrowed posteriorly, some- 

 what constricted, coarsely punctured, with a broad discal band clothed 

 with appressed, bright golden pubescence, metathorax slightly trun- 

 cate, sides clothed with a dense silvery pile. Abdomen ovate, coarsely 

 punctured, basal segment clothed with pale golden pubescence; se- 

 cond segment with four orange s])ots, clothed with a scattered golden 

 pubescence, the two at the basal margin sub-triangular, those on the 

 apical margin are larger and nearly joined together, third and fourth 

 segments black, fifth and sixth with golden pubescence, apex black; 

 ventral segments fringed with long pale hairs. Legs black, middle and pos- 

 terior tibise and tarsi clothed with silvery hairs, those on the tarsi being longer 

 and much more dense. Underside of thorax and abdomen clf>thcd with ob- 

 scure greyish hairs. Length 8 lines. 



Hah. — Mexico. 



Closely resembles M. Creas^oni, but is readily distinguished by the 



bands on the thorax, and by the less robust form. 



59. Mutilla Toluca, n. sp. 



Female. — Black; head rounded, clothed with dense pale ochracoous pubes- 

 cence; antennse black; eyes round, prominent. Thorax ovate, narrowed pos- 



