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270. MUTILLA SaUAMATA. 



Male. Length 3i lines, — Head, thorax and legs black ; the 

 head, except an ovate naked space enclosing the ocelli, the pro- 

 thorax, metathorax above, sides and breast covered with a dense 

 silvery pile; scales of the wings large, pointed behind, their outer 

 margins pale testaceous, wings fusco-hyaline, metathorax trun- 

 cate. Abdomen ferruginous, closely punctured, the basal segment 

 quadrate, its apical margin as well as that of the second segment 

 having a fascia of silvery pile; the entire abdomen sprinkled over 

 very sparingly with long silvery hairs. 



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



271. MUTILLA AURULENTA. 



Mutilla aurulenta, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 436. 38. 

 Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 63. 51. 



Hab. South America. 



272. Mutilla dubia. 



Mutilla dubia, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 435. 33, 

 Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 63. 49. 



Hab. South America. 



273. Mutilla dorsata. 



Mutilla dorsata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 281. 13-14 ? ; Syst. 

 Piez. p. 432. 18. 



Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 60. 31. 



Hab, South America. 



274. Mutilla Klugii. 



Mutilla Klugii, Gray, Cuv. Anim. King. {Griff.) xv. 516 ? . t. 71. 

 f. 22 . 

 ' St. Farg. Hym. iii. 596. 2 ? 



Hab. South America. 



275. Mutilla andreniformis. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black, densely pubescent, that on 

 the vertex and mesothorax bright ochraceous, on the legs and 

 rest of the body it is cinereous, tinged with yellow on the ab- 

 domen above ; the wings smoky-hyaline, having a broad darker 

 band on their apical margins ; the abdomen petiolated, the pe- 

 tiole having a broad longitudinal groove above, not quite reaching 



