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143. MUTILLA VIRIDATIS. 



Male. Length 3^ lines. — Bright green, the legs, vertex and 

 tegulae bluish ; the eyes rounded and very prominent ; the head 

 and thorax coarsely punctured; the wings subhyaline, their 

 nervures fuscous ; the legs have a scattered long white pubescence, 

 the calcaria white. Abdomen covered with deep elongate punc- 

 tures, the basal segment subpetiolate ; the apical segments 

 thinly covered with long black pubescence ; beneath, the second 

 segment covered with large deep punctures. 



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



144. MUTILLA RUGICOLLISr ^^ B.M. 



Mutilla rugicolhs, Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 17. t. 53. f . 5 $ . 



Hab. New Holland (Hunter River). 



145. Mutilla distinguenda. B.M. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black, the head and thorax coarsely 

 rugose, the clypeus and cheeks having a little long cinereous pu- 

 bescence, that on the thorax beneath, and on the legs, is also 

 cinereous, on the latter intermixed with fuscous above ; the 

 thorax is rounded in front, and has on each side, a little before 

 the middle, a stout tooth ; narrowed towards the abdomen, and 

 having above a long thin black pubescence. Abdomen : the se- 

 cond segment above red, the entire abdomen having a thin black 

 pubescence ; the fourth and fifth segments have a spot of silvery- 

 white pubescence in the centre of their apical margins ; beneath, 

 the second and following segments are ciliated with cinereous 

 hairs. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



146. Mutilla lacinia. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black, head and thorax closely and 

 coarsely punctured ; the metathorax rugose ; the eyes ovate, 

 the scape, vertex and cheeks fringed with pale pubescence, the 

 face below the antennae also covered with long loose white pu- 

 bescence ; the basal joint of the flagellum obscurely ferruginous ; 

 the tegulee and legs ferruginous ; the thorax and legs thinly 

 scattered over with pale hairs, intermixed with black ones on the 

 disk of the former ; wings subhyaline, their apical margins dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen shining and deeply punctured, subpetiolate, 

 the four basal segments thinly sprinkled over with long pale 



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