54 HYMENOPTERA. 



gin of the second segment narrowly, and a broad slightly inter- 

 rupted band near its apical margin, pale rufo-testaceous ; its 

 apical margin narrowly testaceous; the four apical segments 

 rufo-testaceous, their apical margins palest. 



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



266. MUTILLA GIGANTEA. 



Mutilla gigantea, Perty, Del. An. Art. p. 138. t. 27. f. 9. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



267. Mutilla heraldica. 



Female. Length 5J lines. — Black, the head densely clothed 

 with cream-coloured pubescence, a stripe of black behind the 

 eyes ; the basal joints of the antennse have a white pubescence. 

 The thorax and legs densely clothed with similar pubescence to 

 the head, a triangular patch of black pubescence on the meso- 

 thorax anteriorly, also a black line down the metathoras. Ab- 

 domen black, the second segment having two large elongate spots 

 uniting to a second lateral spot, which again unites with the 

 colouring of the entire segment beneath, all being of a cream- 

 coloured white ; the third segment in the middle has a quadrate 

 patch, and the fourth and fifth have a transverse one, all oc- 

 cupying the width of the segment. 



Hab. South America (Brazil?). 



268. Mutilla inaueata. B.M. 



Male. Length 4i-f)A lines. — Black, the face below the antennae 

 covered w^ith pale gol'len pubescence, the tips of the mandibles 

 ferruginous. Thorax clothed with black, and the metathorax 

 w^th silvery pubescence ; the scutellum produced, and a prominent 

 tubercle in the centre of the metathorax ; the tegulce very large, 

 rounded beliind ; the wings subhyaline, slightly clouded at their 

 apical margins; the legs have a thin clothing of pale glittering 

 pubescence. Abdomen petiolate, the petiole clothed with silvery 

 pubescence, the second and three following segments covered 

 with rich golden pubescence, the second segment more or Jess 

 black at the base ; a central carina runs from the base of the 

 fourth segment to the apex of the abdomen. 



Hab. Brazil. 



269. Mutilla melanocephala. 



Mutilla melanocephala, Perty, Del. An. Art. p. 137. t. 27. f. 6. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



