2 MTJTILLIDJE. 



nodiform ; ocelli ( c? ) prominent, placed in a triangle on vertex ; 

 wings ( c? ) moderately broad, fore wing with the cells much 

 reduced, well removed from the apical margin, only one cubital 

 cell ; anal segment of abdomen in J with an up-curved spine. 



1. Apterogyna mutilloides, S7nith, Cat. iii, p. 64, $ j ; C(m. Mem. 

 Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, p. 137. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen very coarsely punctured, the 

 punctures running into longitudinal coarse striae on the posterior 

 portion of the pronotum and on the abdomen. Black, the 

 antennae, the vertex and front of the head, the occiput, thorax, 

 and 1st abdominal segment red ; the legs obscurely dark chestnut- 

 red ; the whole head, thorax, and abdomen covered with glistening 

 silvery white hairs. 



S . Similar in colour, with similar pubescence, but the head 

 nearly black ; the antennae longer, more filiform, and darker ; the 

 pubescence on the apical segments of the abdomen more dense ; 

 wings hyaline, lightly fuscous, with a brownish tint. 



Hah, India (Smith) ; Allahabad, North-West Provinces. $ . 

 Length 17 mm. cJ . Length 12 ; exp. 22 mm. 



Genus MUTILLA. 



Mutilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 966 (1767). 

 Tiphia, pt., Hossi, Faun. Etrtisc. ii, p. 68 (1790). 



Type, M. europcea, Linn. 

 Range. Both hemispheres. 



Fig. 2. — Mutilla interrupta. |. 



$ . Head orbicular, sometimes subquadrate ; eyes generally 

 small and round; ocelli absent; antennae subfiliform, rarely 

 setaceous, inserted low down just above the very short clypeus, 

 their bases moderately wide apart ; clypeus generally small ; man- 

 dibles unidentate as a rule ; thorax more or less rectangular, or 

 quadrate, sometimes oval, occasionally much narrowed and com- 

 pressed anteriorly or posteriorly ; legs short, robust, spinose ; 

 abdomen ovate, 1st segment subpyriform, occasionally narrowed 

 and petiolate, furnished beneath with a carina, which is occa- 

 sionally, but vei'y rarely, absent ; anal segment with an elongate 

 acute sting often exserted. 



