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188. MUTILLA SEXMACULATA. B.M. 



Mutilla sexmaculata, Swed. Nov. Act. Holm. viii. 286. 44 $ 



(1787). 



Mutilla fuscipennis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 436. 35 J . 

 Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 63. 50. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 602. 10. 



Hab. China; Java; India. 



The sexes are united on the authority of Brigadier-General 

 Hearsey, who captured them in copula, in the Punjaub in India. 



189. Mutilla aulica. B.M. 



Female. Length 3i Hues. — Black, the head having a large 

 round spot of silvery pubescence on the vertex. Thorax oblong, 

 the mesothorax coarsely rugose and obscurely ferruginous ; on 

 the sides an oblong patch of silvery pubescence ; the legs dark 

 rufo-piceous, thinly sprinkled with silver)?^ hairs. Abdomen 

 thinly covered with black pubescence, at the sides and apex a 

 few long black hairs ; the second segment having on each side a 

 narrow oblong spot, touching the base, and the third and fourth 

 segments, an ovate spot on each side in a line with the oblong 

 spots, of bright silvery pubescence ; on the two apical segments 

 a mixture of black and silvery haii's. 



Hab. Northern India. 



Var. a. The spot on the vertex nearly obsolete, and the thorax 

 black. 



190. Mutilla funeraria. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Deep black, the head, legs and 

 antennae thinly sprinkled with silvery hau's ; the thorax oblong, 

 shghtly narrowed posteriorly. Abdomen of an opake black, the 

 apical margin of the second segment having a lunate band of 

 silvery pubescence ; the two apical segments thinly sprinkled 

 with a mixture of silvery hairs. 



Hab. Northern India. 



191. Mutilla pusilla. 



Female. Length 2 lines. — Head, thorax and legs ferruginous; 

 head about the same width as the thorax, strongly punctured. 

 Thorax oblong-quadrate, roughly punctured; legs pale rufo- 

 testaceous, the femora, tibiae and joints of the tarsi palest to- 

 wards their base ; the legs sprinkled with a bright glittering 



