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221. MUTILLA VIDUA. B.M. 



Mutilla vidua, Klug, Nova Acta Cces, Curios, x. 313. 14 $ . 

 t. 22. f. 11. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 636. 61. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



222. Mutilla atripes, B.M. 



Female. Length 6-8 lines. — Black, the head and thorax ru- 

 gose, the latter armed oq each side with three obtuse tubercles; 

 the pubescence on the legs deep black. Abdomen : the second 

 segment having four ovate reddish-yellow maculae, the basal pair 

 smallest ; a narrow line of bright silvery pubescence runs down 

 the centre of the three apical segments ; beneath, the margins 

 of the segments thinly fringed with silvery hahs. 



Hab. Brazil (Santarem). 



This species closely resembles M. quadrinotata ; the spots on 

 the abdomen are however smaller, the thorax and legs are entirely 

 black, and the abdomen has only a very narrow Hne of silvery 

 pubescence ; it is apparently a distinct species. 



223. Mutilla chrysocephala. B.M. 



Female. Length 3-4^ hnes. — Purple, closely punctured; the 

 face and vertex of the head densely clothed with short golden 

 pubescence ; the antennae, mandibles and legs red ; the thorax 

 oblong-ovate, having a central longitudinal stripe of short silvery 

 pubescence, usually more or less obliterated; the sides have also 

 more or less of a bright silvery pile. Abdomen : the apical margin 

 of the basal segment silvery; two elongate spots at the base of the 

 second segment, two quadrate spots on its apical margin, and a 

 series of similar spots on the four apical segments, of bright silvery 

 pubescence, the abdomen beneath silvery. 



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



224. Mutilla oculifera. B.M. 

 Male. Length 4 lines.— Head and thorax black, coarsely 



punctured and clothed with long glittering hoary pubescence ; 

 eyes ovate, head narrower than the thorax, the metathorax 

 rounded ; wings subhyahne, slightly fuscous towards their apical 

 margins ; legs covered with long loose hoary pubescence. Ab- 

 domen petiolate, the petiole black, the apical margin of the basal 

 segment and rest of the abdomen ferruginous, the three apical 



