HYMENOPTERA. 53 



quadrate, longitudinally rugose, the legs thinly sprinkled with 

 pale glittering pubescence, the apical joints of the tarsi rufo- 

 testaceous. The second segment of the abdomen has on each 

 side a large ovate macula of golden pile, the third and fourth 

 segments having a broad band of golden pile, the entire insect 

 thinly sprinkled over w^ith long pale glittering hairs. 



Hah. Brazil. 



260. MUTILLA BIFURCA. 



Mutilla bifurca, Klug, Nova Acta Cess. Nat. Curios, x. 313. 13 $ . 

 t. 22. f. 10. 



Hab. Brazil (Cameta and Bahia). 



261. Mutilla bucephala. 



Mutilla bucephala, Per^^, Del. An. Art. p. 137. t. 28. f. 8. 

 Hab. Brazil. * 



fi<4:<^*. ' 



262. Mutilla Bucephalus. ~~ ' 



Female. Length b\ lines. — Black, head and thorax strongly 

 punctured ; the former much wider than the latter, the cheeks 

 uot spined. Thorax narrowed posteriorly, unarmed at the sides, 

 and having two ovate spots of silvery pubescence on the disk ; 

 the sides of the metathorax covered with short silvery pubescence. 

 Abdomen : the basal segment having an acute ridge a little before 

 the apical margin, the ridge denticulate ; the second segment 

 having two large round naked maculae of a pale testaceous colour. 



Hab. Brazil. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



263. Mutilla chrysodora. 



Mutilla chrysodora, Perty, Del. An. Art. p. 137. t. 27. f. 7. 

 Hah. Brazil. 



264. Mutilla decorata. 



Mutilla ornata, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 622. 41 $ (nee Klug). 

 Hah. Brazil. (Coll. W.W. Saunders, Esq.) 



265. Mutilla furva. 



Female. Length 3 lines. — Head black, antennse and man- 

 dibles rufo-testaceous, the flagellura above slightly fuscous, the 

 mandibles black at their tips ; thorax and legs rufo-testaceous, 

 the latter palest ; the thorax is fiddle-shaped, the lateral margins 

 being denticulated. Abdomen : the basal segment, the basal mar- 



