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166. MUTILLA ANTENNATA. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Head and abdomen black, thorax 

 red ; eyes emarginate ; the antenna? fusco-ferruginous, longer 

 than the head and thorax ; mandibles in the middle, and palpi 

 ferruginous. Thorax : the legs black ; the mesothorax distantly 

 bat coarsely punctured, the metathorax covered with large shallow 

 punctures, having a smooth channel down the centre, which has 

 on each side an elevated carina ; the tegulee large, rounded pos- 

 teriorly ; wings subhyaline, sligntly fuscous towards their apical 

 margins. Abdomen covered with large distant punctm'cs, the 

 apical margins fringed with long pale glittering pubescence ; the 

 entire insect is thinly sprinkled with pale glittering hairs. 



Hab. India. 



16/. MUTILLA ARGENTIPES. 



Female. Length 5| lines. — Black, the vertex having an ovate 

 spot of silvery- white pubescence, the cheeks clothed with the 

 same. Thorax : the disk obscurely ferruginous, clothed with 

 reddish' yellow pubescence, having a golden gloss ; the sides 

 armed with a stout tooth, a little before the middle ; the legs 

 have a silvery pubescence. Abdomen : the basal segment has a 

 spot of silvery pubescence, and the basal margin of the second 

 segment has also a little of the same, beyond which it is clothed 

 with reddish-yellow; its apical margin clothed with black, and 

 having three ovate spots of silvery-white ; the three following 

 segments have a central spot of the same colour ; beneath ferru- 

 ginous, the margins of the segments fringed with silvery hairs. 



Hab. India. 



168. MUTILLA AURIFRONS. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Brownish-red, the sides of the tho- 

 rax and abdomen having some dusky stains; the face and vertex 

 densely clothed with short bright golden pubescence ; the an- 

 tennae ferruginous, having the tlagellum fuscous above, except 

 the two or three basal joints. Thorax elongate-ovate, slightly 

 narrowed behind ; legs bright ferruginous and having a pale glit- 

 tering pubescence. Abdomen : the second segment having two 

 minute spots of golden pubescence, its apical margin having a 

 fascia of yellowish- white pubescence and being notched in the 

 middle ; the following segments have a thick marginal fringe of 

 bright reddish-yellow pubescence. 



Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



