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beneath coarsely punctured, the segments ciliated with white 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 



157. MUTILLA MODESTA. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — Black, the head and thorax co- 

 vered with large confluent punctures ; the vertex and cheeks have 

 a thin silvery pubescence, a tuft of the same in front of the eyes ; 

 the head, thorax and abdomen above have a thinly scattered long 

 black pubescence ; the legs, thorax and abdomen beneath have 

 a thin long white pubescence. The basal segment of the ab- 

 domen has a central spot of white pubescence, a circular spot of 

 the same in the middle of the second segment, and a spot on 

 its apical margin ; the fifth segment has a little tuft of white 

 pubescence on its apical margin in the centre, and there is a 

 similar tuft at the extreme lateral apical margin of the second 

 segment ; the second and third segments beneath are fringed 

 with white pubescence. 



Hab. AustraUa (Adelaide). 



158. MUTILLA PULCHELLA. B.M. 



Female, Length 4 lines. — The head and thorax ferruginous, 

 with a beautiful violet iridescence, moderately punctured, and 

 having a thinly scattered black pubescence ; the scape, cheeks 

 and thorax beneath have a thin cinereous pubescence; the 

 eyes black and prominent; thorax rounded anteriorly, much 

 narrowed posteriorly ; the legs sometimes of a bright violet tint, 

 or ferruginous with a violet iridescence ; the tarsi thickly covered 

 with cinereous pubescence ; the tibiae and femora have a scat- 

 tered cinereous pubescence ; the coxse, trochanters, base of the 

 femora and the thorax beneath ferruginous. Abdomen of a me- 

 talUc purple, the second and following segments having down 

 • the centre a line of silvery pubescence. 



Hab. Austraha (Moreton Bay ; Adelaide). 



159. MUTILLA QUADRATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 4^ lines. — Head rugose, on the vertex a 

 little golden pubescence ; the antennjc, mandibles, thorax and 

 legs ferruginous ; the latter oblong-quadrate, slightly compressed 

 posteriorly, very coarsely rugose above, and having a scattered 

 golden pubescence ; the sides and femora above rufo-piceous. 

 Abdomen thinly clothed with black pubescence, a spot of glit- 

 tering silvery pubescence on the basal segment, an ovate one on 



