﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  59 
  

  

  band 
  on 
  the 
  fourth 
  segment 
  is 
  as 
  in 
  M. 
  humbertiana 
  ; 
  in 
  

   M. 
  soror 
  it 
  is 
  figured 
  as 
  straight 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  M. 
  insidaris 
  

   Cam., 
  may 
  be 
  known 
  from 
  it 
  by 
  the 
  thorax 
  being 
  red 
  ; 
  by 
  

   the 
  metapleurae 
  not 
  being 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  throughout, 
  

   only 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  apex, 
  the 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  third 
  segment 
  

   complete, 
  not 
  incised 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  

  

  ^MUTILLA 
  PERELEGANS, 
  Sp. 
  IIOV. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  supposed 
  variety 
  of 
  M. 
  pidchrina 
  figured 
  

   by 
  me 
  {Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  V., 
  1892, 
  pi. 
  i, 
  f. 
  6), 
  but 
  

   which 
  I 
  now 
  regard 
  as 
  quite 
  distinct 
  ; 
  and, 
  thanks 
  to 
  Col. 
  

   Yerbury, 
  I 
  am 
  enabled 
  to 
  describe 
  the 
  male, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

   the 
  female, 
  in 
  detail. 
  

  

  2 
  . 
  Head 
  very 
  slightly 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  thorax 
  ; 
  

   stoutly 
  keeled 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  behind, 
  ferruginous, 
  coarsely 
  

   rugosely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  covered 
  sparsely 
  with 
  longish 
  black 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  almost 
  transverse 
  behind, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  developed 
  

   the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  eyes. 
  Mandibles 
  black. 
  Scape 
  of 
  the 
  

   antennae 
  deep 
  black, 
  shining, 
  glabrous; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  thick; 
  

   the 
  third 
  joint 
  twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  fourth; 
  brownish 
  

   beneath. 
  Thorax 
  a 
  little 
  narrowed 
  from 
  the 
  middle 
  to 
  

   the 
  apex 
  ; 
  above 
  coarsely 
  rugosely 
  punctured, 
  the 
  punc- 
  

   tures 
  elongated 
  ; 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  black 
  hairs, 
  

   but 
  very 
  thickly 
  on 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  while 
  the 
  median 
  

   segment 
  is 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  pale 
  golden 
  hairs, 
  

   and 
  has 
  a 
  somewhat 
  oblique 
  slope. 
  Pro- 
  and 
  meso-pleura 
  

   shining, 
  impunctate; 
  except 
  a 
  broad 
  punctured 
  projection 
  

   down 
  the 
  mesopleurse, 
  the 
  projection 
  itself 
  being 
  covered 
  

   with 
  long 
  pale 
  golden 
  hairs 
  ; 
  and, 
  above, 
  it 
  forms 
  a 
  pro- 
  

   jecting 
  tooth, 
  behind 
  which 
  is 
  another 
  slightly 
  larger 
  

   and 
  rounder 
  one. 
  Legs 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  femora 
  slightly, 
  the 
  

   tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  golden 
  hairs. 
  

   Abdomen 
  longer 
  than 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  together; 
  black; 
  

   an 
  orange-coloured 
  mark 
  of 
  hairs, 
  broader 
  than 
  long 
  and 
  

   with 
  the 
  sides 
  rounded, 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  seg- 
  

  

  