HYMENOPTERA. 



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310. MUTILLA VESTITA. B.M. 



Mutilla vestita, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 634. 58 3 • 

 Hab. Mexico. 



311. Mutilla verticalis. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — Black, the head broader than the 

 thorax ; the vertex red, and clothed with ferruginous pubescence. 

 Thorax narrowed posteriorly, the sides slightly contracted a little 

 beyond the middle, the lateral margins crenulated ; the meso- 

 thorax has a broad red stripe on each side ; the legs and tlie 

 thorax beneath thinly covered with pale ghttering pubescence ; 

 the intermediate and posterior tibise armed exteriorly with a row 

 of sharp spines. Abdomen : the second segment has two small 

 ovate spots at its basal margin, and beyond them two large ovate 

 ones almost touching in the centre of the segment ; the four 

 apical segments fringed with long pale yellow glittering pubes- 

 cence. 



Hab. Mexico. 



312. Mutilla versicolor. B.M. 



Mutilla versicolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 371. 20; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 434. 30. 



Oliv. Ency. Metli. viii. 63. 46. 



Hab. America ; St. John's Bluff, East Florida. (E. Doubleday.) 



313. Mutilla vigilans. 



Mutilla vigilans. Say, Bost. Journ. i. 296. 3. 

 Hab. Pennsylvania. 



Genus 2. APTEROGYNA. 



Scolia, pt., Fabr. Ent. Sijst. ii. 23/ (1793). 

 Apterogyna, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. (1809). 



1. Apterogyna globularia. B.M. 



Scolia globularis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 237- 37, and Cab. Mus. 



Dom. Banks. 



Dahlm. Analec. Entom. p. 100. 

 Apterogyna Ehrenbergii, Westw. Griff. Anim. Kingd. xv. 515. 



t. 76. f . 5 (? , fide type in Brit. Mus. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



