44 HYMENOPTERA. 



rax, eyes ovate ; the face and cheeks thinly covered with griseous 

 pubescence. Thorax : the scutellum produced, armed on each 

 side with a stout tooth; the metathorax clothed with silvery 

 pubescence ; the wings hyaline, having a dark fuscous marginal 

 cloud, also a dark stain at the apex of the externo-medial cell. 

 Abdomen petiolate, the three basal segments thinly covered with 

 silvery pubescence ; the apical segments clothed with black pu- 

 bescence. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). (H. W. Bates.) 



217. MUTILLA QUADRIPUSTULATA. B.M. 



Mutilla quadripustulata, Klug, Nova Acta C(Bs, Curios, x. 316. 

 17$.t. 23. f. 2. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



218. Mutilla succincta. B.M. 



Female. Length 4-4i lines. — Black, head as wide as the 

 thorax, finely shagreened. Thorax oblong-quadrate, ferruginous 

 above, longitudinally rugose, the metathorax rounded and cre- 

 nulated at the sides, covered wdth large shallow punctures ; the 

 legs have a thin scattered pale glittering pubescence. Abdomen : 

 the second segment having two round patches of golden pubes- 

 cence placed towards the apical margin, the four apical segments 

 covered with pale golden pubescence ; the margins of the seg- 

 ments beneath ciliated with pale ghttering hairs. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



219. Mutilla tristis. B.M. 

 Mutilla tristis, Klug, Nova Acta Cces. Curios, x. 318. 20 $ . 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



220. Mutilla vaga. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, head finely shagreened, the 

 thorax longitudinally rugose, the sides slightly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, the metathorax rounded ; the legs have a thinly scattered 

 pale glittering pubescence, the calcaria white. Abdomen : the 

 second segment having two elongate-ovate yellow macula) which 

 are covered with golden pubescence, the four apical segments 

 frmged with silvery pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). (H.W.Bates.) (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



