32 HYMEN OPTERA. 



169. MuTiLLA Bengalensis. 



Mutilla Bengalensis, St. Fary. Hym. iii. 637. 63 $ . 

 Hab. Bengal. 



170. Mutilla blanda. B.M. 



Female. Length 3-3^ lines. — Head and abdomen black, tho- 

 rax red ; cheeks, mouth and scape rufo-piceous ; the head thinly 

 clothed with short bright silvery hairs ; thorax oblong, rugose, 

 legs more or less rufo-piceous, the tarsi palest ; the calcaria white ; 

 the legs have a thin, long, glittering silvery pubescence. Ab- 

 domen clothed with short black pubescence; the second segment 

 has an ovate spot of short silvery pubescence at its basal margin, 

 in the centre, and another at its apical margin ; the second seg- 

 ment clothed with silvery pubescence ; the apical segment fer- 

 ruginous above, striated obliquely on each side from the middle; 

 the entire abdomen thinly sprinkled with long, glittering, silvery 

 hairs. 



Hab. India. 



171. Mutilla diversa. 



Female. Length 4i lines. — Head and thorax red, the former 

 rounded at the sides and narrowed anteriorly; antenna; and man- 

 dibles red; the legs red, and having a thin pale glittering pubes- 

 cence ; the head, and the thorax above thinly covered with erect 

 black hairs. Abdomen black; the basal segment having a patch, 

 and the second and third segments an ovate spot on each side on 

 their apical margins, of pale golden pubescence; beneath ob- 

 scure red. 



Hab. India. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



This species resembles the M. erythrocephala, but the head is 

 ofa different form, being rounded, not subquadrate as in that spe- 

 cies, and instead of bands it has only spots on the margins of 

 the abdominal segments. 



172. Mutilla dives. 



Female. Length 2-4 lines. — Black, the vertex sometimes ob- 

 scurely ferruginous; the thorax above and the metathorax ferru- 

 ginous ; the legs dark rufo-piceous, the tarsi palest ; the pubes- 

 cence on the legs pale and glittering ; the calcaria white. Ab- 

 domen : the second segment has two elongate-ovate spots of rich 

 golden ])ubescence, placed laterally ; the third segment has two 

 quadrate bright silver spots; the fifth segment has a little silvery 

 pubescence in the middle ; beneath rufo-piceous. 



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



