MTJTILLA. 



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of the insect has the hair black ; the ventral longer and whitish. 

 Legs covered with white hairs. 



" Lenfjth 8j ram." 



Hah. Poona ( Wrour/Jiton). 



23. Mutilla pulla, Aiidre, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1893, pp. 464, 



473, 2 ■ 

 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen very finely and closely punc- 

 tured, on the front running into longitudinal striae ; head wider 

 than the thorax ; thorax rounded in front and at apex, and 

 rounded convexly from front to apex ; the antenute long and pro- 

 portionately very thick. Head and abdomen black, the scape and 

 basal joint of the flagellum of the antenna;, the thorax, and legs 

 red : an oval medial spot near the base, and a broad lunate one, 

 on the apical margin of the 2nd abdominal segment, covered with 

 pale golden pubescence. 



ffab. Canai'a, Bombay Presidency. $ . Lenr/th 5 mm. 



24. Mutilla blanda. Smith, Cat. iii, p. 32, $ . 



2 . Head and thorax closely and coarsely, and the abdomen 

 finely punctured and pubescent: thorax from above nearly oval, 

 anteriorly and posteriorly broadly rounded ; the sides excavated 

 and smooth, the lateral margins above crenulate ; abdomen broad, 

 short, about as long as the head and thorax together, the apical 

 segment finely lonsiitudinally striate on the sides. Black, the 

 thorax above and on the sides red, the pubescence white, thin, 

 and scattered : two median spots, one at the base and one on the 

 posterior margin of the 2nd segment, and the whole of the 3rd 

 segment above, covered with glittering silvery pubescence. 



Hnh. India ; Ceylon. $ . Length 7 mm. Type in the British 

 Museum. 



*25. Mutilla COnstancese, Cnjn. Mem. Manch. Z, Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 pp. 118, 134, pi. i, fig. 10, $. 



" $ . Black, the thorax pale ferruginous above, an irregular 

 mark on the base and apex of the second segment and the third 

 segment white. Antennae with the third joint about one quarter 

 longer than the fourth ; the first at apex, the second and the 

 terminal beneath more or less piceous. Head not much w'vdev 

 than the thorax, coarsely punctured, densely covered with silvtMy 

 hair ; the antennal tubercles piceous, aciculate. Eyes oval, mode- 

 rate, reaching quite close to the top of the head. Thorax quadrate, 

 rounded at base and apex, the sides rough, slightly concave; 

 above coarsely longitudinally punctured ; the pleurae im])unctate, 

 densely covered with white hairs. Abdomen as long as the head 

 and thorax united, subsessile, dila*-ed at the base of second segment, 

 becoming gradually narrowed to the apex, coarsely punctured, in 



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