24 HYMENOPTERA. 



139. MUTILLA IGNITA. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head brassy-green, the mandibles 

 ferruginous, their tips black. Thorax oblong-ovate, slightly 

 narrowed behind ; roughly punctured above and of a blue-green ; 

 legs coppery, and having a scattered hoary pubescence. Ab- 

 domen coppery, having a purple tinge ; very glossy, finely punc- 

 tm'ed ; the first and second segments have a fringe of vi^hite 

 pubescence on their apical margins ; the three following seg- 

 ments have a few white hairs in the centre ; the three apical 

 segments have a long thin fuscous pubescence. 



Hab. New Holland. 



140. MUTILLA NIGROiENEA. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head and thorax nigro-aeneous, 

 the former very closely punctured, the antennae and mandibles 

 rufo-testaceous, the scape bright ferruginous at the base be- 

 neath. The thorax above covered with large deep punctiu*es ; 

 slightly narrowed posteriorly, not armed with spines at the sides ; 

 the legs bright red. Abdomen dark metallic green, shining and 

 finely punctured, the apical margins of the segments thinly 

 fringed with pale hairs. 



Hab. New Holland. 



141. MUTILLA ROBUSTA. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Black, the head densely covered 

 with confluent punctures and having a thinly scattered black 

 pubescence, the eyes slightly emarginate. Thorax much broader 

 than the head, ferruginous, closely and coarsely punctured, the 

 sutures of the prothorax, scutellum and metathorax deeply 

 impressed ; the wings dark fuscous, palest at their base, the 

 nervures ferruginous ; the legs have a thin pale yellow pubes- 

 cence. Abdomen shining and rather finely punctured, the apical 

 margins of the three basal segments have a broad fascia of pale 

 golden pubescence ; the apical segment rugose and armed with 

 two sharp spines ; the entire abdomen beneath, as well as the 

 breast, black. 



Hab. New Holland. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



142. MUTILLA RUFICORNIS. 



Mutilla ruficornis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 369; Syst. Piez. p. 431. 

 Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 69. 25. 

 Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 18. 5. 



Hab. New Holland. 



