36 HYMENOPTERA. 



ginal fringe, a central spot uniting with the fringe, and the third 

 segment covered laterally with pale yellow pubescence. 



Hab. India. 



184. MUTILLA RUFIVENTRIS. 



Female. Length 2-3 lines. — Head, thorax and legs ferrugi- 

 nous; head subovate, rather wider than the thorax, sparingly 

 and finely punctured; antennae ferruginous. Thorax oblong, 

 longitudinally rugose ; legs rufo-testaceous, varying in depth of 

 colour and having a sparing glittering white pubescence. Abdo- 

 men : the basal segment has an ovate spot in the middle of its 

 apical margin, and in the middle of the apical margins of the 

 second and third segments is a half-circular spot of silvery-white 

 pubescence ; the entii-e abdomen thinly sprinkled with long white 

 hairs ; the extreme apex of the abdomen, as well as beneath, fer- 

 ruginous. 



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



185. MUTILLA RUFOGASTRA. B.M. 



Mutilla rufogastra, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 629. 51 <? . 



Hab. India (Nepaul) ; China. 



This species closely resembles M. fuscipennis, of which it may 

 be a variety, but it differs in having the wings of a lighter colour, 

 and hyaline at their base ; its metathorax is narrowed posteriorly, 

 whilst in fuscipennis it is widened. 



186. Mutilla rugosa. 



Mutilla rugosa, Oliv. Ency. Metk. viii. 61. 35 $ . 

 Hab. India. 



187. Mutilla semiaurata. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, the head, mesothorax an- 

 teriorly, metathorax and legs clothed with silvery-white pubes- 

 cence ; the abdomen densely clothed with bright pale golden 

 pubescence, except the apical segment, which is black and has a 

 central silvery-white pubescent spot;, beneath, the margins of 

 the segments are fringed with silvery hairs, the second segment 

 coarsely punctured and having a central longitudinal carina. 



Male. — Clothed as in the other sex, the eyes ovate, wings 

 dark fuscous, palest towards their base. 



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



