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173. MUTILLA GLABRATA. 



Mutilla glabrata, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii. 372. 25 ? ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 438. 45. 



Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 65. 64. 



Hab. India. 



174. Mutilla Indica. 



Mutilla Indica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 966. 3 ? . 

 Hab. Lidia. 



175. Mutilla Indostana. 



Male. Length 8^^ lines. — Head, thorax, legs and basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen black ; wings dark fuscous ; abdomen, ex- 

 cept the base, red ; head small, eyes emarginate ; the metathorax 

 narrowed at the base, obliquely truncate at the apex, covered 

 with large shallow punctures; the apical margins of the segments 

 of the abdomen fringed with ferruginous pubescence ; the ex- 

 treme apex fuscous. 



Hab. Madras. 



176. Mutilla miranda. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Head ferruginous, narrower than the 

 thorax, eyes emarginate, antennae black. Thorax : the prothorax 

 and mesothorax ferruginous; the metathorax and thorax beneath 

 as well as the legs black, the latter clothed with pale glittering 

 pubescence; the metathorax broad, produced at its lateral angles; 

 the wings brown, their base hyaline. Abdomen black, the second 

 segment having on each side a large spot of white pubescence, 

 the third and fourth segments clothed with white pubescence. 



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



177. Mutilla nigripes. 



Mutilla nigripes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 372. 28 $ ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 439.51. 



Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 66, 67- 



Hab. India. 



178. Mutilla nobilis. B.M. 



Male. Length 6i lines. — Head and thorax ferruginous, eyes 

 ovate, antennae ferruginous, the flagellum beyond the two or 

 three basal joints fuscous above ; wings fuscous, subhyahne at 



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