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106. Mutilla combusta, Smith, Catal. Brit. Mus. Hym. Ill, p. 59. No. 285. 

 Female. — ■Reddish-brown, head and thorax above clothed with golden pubes- 

 cence, second abdominal segment having two large ovate testaceous niaculse, 

 placed transversely a little beyond the middle. Length ik lines. — (Smith.) 



Hab. — Mexico. 



107. Mutilla contracta, Say, Bost. Jour. I. p. 295. 1. 



Male. — Black ; anterior half of first segment of the tergum black, wings 

 blackish-fuliginous, paler about the middle, third submarginal cell contracted 

 at base, its extreme nervure opposite to and joining the recurrent nervure, eyes 

 ovate, emarginate. Length 5 — 7 lines. — (Say.) 

 Hab. — Western States. 



108. Mutilla dubitata, Smith, Catal. Brit. Mus. Ill, p. 60. No. 295. 



Female. — Ferruginous ; flagellum and tips of mandibles fusco-testaceoua ; 

 thorax and head closely punctured; the apical margins of abdominal segments 

 fringed with silvery-white pubescence, eyes ovate. Length 4 lines. — (Smith.) 

 Hab. — Florida. 



109. Mutilla exulans, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 11.358. 8; Syst. Piez. p. 430. 8. Oliv 



Ency. Me'th. 56. 10. 

 Female, — Head and thorax black, punctured, abdomen yellowish towards the 

 base, segments slightly punctured. — (Fabr.) 

 Hab. — North America. 



110. Mutilla frigida, Smith, Catal. Brit. Mus. Hym. Ill, p. 60. No. 298. 

 Female. — Ferruginous ; head subquadrate, wider than the thorax, closely 



punctured; thorax oblong-quadrate sliglitly narrowed posteriorly; the four 

 apical segments of abdomen rufo-piceous, ciliated with cinereous hairs. Length 

 2 lines.— (Smith.) 



Hab. — Arctic America. 



111. Mutilla Holotricba, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 4th series, Vol. VII. 



p 361. pi. 8. fig. 11. 

 Female. — Rufous ; clothed above with dense pale yellow pubescence, apical 

 segments fringed with fuscous hairs. Length 4i lines. — (Sauss.) 

 Hab. — Mexico. 



112. Mutilla militaris, Smith, Catal. Brit. Mus. Hym. Ill, p. 61. No. 301. 

 Fe?nale. — Bright brick-red; the head, legs, basal segment of the abdomen, a 



trilobate spot at the base of second segment, an angular one on its apical mar- 

 gin, and also the four apical segments, black; all the black parts, except the 

 legs, are clothed with black pubescence, on the legs and red portions it is gris- 

 eous. Length 6 lines. — (Smith.) 

 Hab. — Jamaica. 



113. Mutilla montezumae, St. Farg. Hym. Ill, p. 634. 59. 



Female. — Head black, front and vertex clothed with appressed reddish 

 golden pubescence, thorax similarly clothed, abdomen black, segments fringed 

 with golden pubescence. Length 4 lines. — (St. Farg.) 

 Hab. — Mexico. 



