16 MUTILLID^. 



punctured and pubescent ; the pubescence short, thick, velvety, with 

 a mixture of long black hairs ; thorax above slightly convex, rect- 

 angular, the sides excavated, smooth ; the median segment pos- 

 teriorly truncate ; the pronotum anteriorly rounded, narrowed into 

 a collar towards the head. Black, the thorax above obscurely dark 

 red, a circular spot on the vertex of the head, an oblong patch on 

 the sides of the thorax, and a sublateral spot on each side of the 

 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments of the abdomen, of white pubescence. 



Var. The spot on the vertex obsolete or absent ; thorax some- 

 times black. 



Hab. Northern India ; Ceylon. $ . Length 6-8 mm. Type in 

 British Museum. 



20. Mutilla hexaops, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1867, p. 356, pi. 8, 



fig. 6. 



$ . Closely allied to and resembling M. sexmaculata, Swed., but 

 constantly smaller ; the antennae ferruginous ; the thorax red not 

 black, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments with a round spot on each 

 side covered with white pubescence. 



Hab. Ceylon. $ . Length 7 mm. 



21. Mutilla valida. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen evenly, rather closely and coarsely 

 punctured, densely pubescent ; thorax suboval, the lateral margins 

 lightly crenulate, the sides slightly excavated, smooth, with tw^o 

 fine oblique carinse ; median segment posteriorly slightly but 

 distinctly emarginate. Black, the mesonotum, scutellum, post- 

 scutellura, and median segment above red, this colour extending 

 halfway down the posterior face, but not on the sides of the 

 median segment ; pubescence fuscous, with some white hairs on 

 the legs and pectus ; a spot behind the eyes, a patch on the meso- 

 pleurse, and large circular sublateral spots on the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments of the abdomen, white ; the middle of the apical margins 

 of segments 1-3 above with fusco-fulvous pubescence. 



Hab. Barrackpore, Bengal. § . Length 7 mm. Type in coll. 

 Rothuey. 



*22. Mutilla wroughtoni, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 pp.]23, 127,pl. iv,fig. 15, ?. 



" Black, the thorax above rufous, the base of the 2nd abdominal 

 segment with two oval white marks. Antennae stout ; the 3rd 

 joint about one-half longer than the 4th. Head broader than the 

 thorax, coarsely rugosely punctured ; eyes moderate, oblong, the 

 head well developed behind them. Thorax more coarsely rugose 

 than the head, the pleurae apparently impunctate ; the sides of the 

 thorax above rough, becoming gradually dilated to the apex ; the 

 apex of the median segment oblique, black. Abdomen shorter 

 than the head and thorax united, the subsessile pygidium appa- 

 rently punctured, covered with long hairs. The upper surface 



