HYMENOPTERA. 39 



thinly covered with pale yellow pubescence. Thorax : the legs 

 and thorax beneath black, the base of the metathorax having 

 more or less of a fuscous stain, the legs and sides of the thorax 

 thinly clothed with pale yellow pubescence ; the disk of the tho- 

 rax thinly sprinkled with short fuscous hairs ; wings dark fus- 

 cous ; the tegulse ferruginous. Abdomen petiolate, the apical 

 margins of the three basal segments fringed with pale golden 

 pubescence. 



Hah. North China. 



196. MUTILLA VARIEGATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Head, legs and abdomen black, 

 the thorax red; head and thorax longitudinally rugose; the 

 mouth, scape and legs have a thin long golden pubescence ; the 

 thorax transverse in front, the sides angular, the metathorax 

 truncate ; thinly sprinkled with black hairs on the disk, on the 

 metathorax and beneath they are golden-yellow. Abdomen sub- 

 petiolate, a fascia on the apical margins of the three basal seg- 

 ments, and a rounded spot on the centre of the second segment, 

 of short bright golden pubescence ; beneath strongly punctured, 

 above longitudinally rugose. 



Hah. North China. 



197. MUTILLA OCULATA. B.M. 



Mutilla oculata, Fahr. Syst. Piez. p. 432. 19 ; Ency. Meth. viii. 



60. 32. 

 Hah. Hong Kong. ^ 



198. Mutilla Sinensis. B.M. 



Female. Length 6i lines. — Head and abdomen black, the 

 thorax ferruginous ; the flagellura beneath and tips of the man- 

 dibles rufo-piceous ; the flagellum adorned with sericeous pile. 

 Thorax longitudinally rugose, having on each side, a little before 

 the middle, an obtuse tooth, in front and behind which the 

 margins are shghtly emarginate ; the metathorax rounded ; the 

 femora have a scattered, and the tibiae and tarsi a dense golden 

 pubescence. Abdomen : the second segment has at the base an 

 angular spot of golden pubescence, and the third a broad band 

 of the same colour; beneath, the segments are ciliated with 



golden hairs. 



Male.— Similarly coloured to the female, with exception of the 

 metathorax which is black ; the eyes emarginate, the head nar- 

 rower than the thorax ; the tegulee of the wings very large, their 

 posterior margins rounded; wings fusco-hyaline, then- apical mar- 



