18 MUTILLIDJE. 



the middle bearing rufous hairs, the sides with silA^ery hair; 

 pygidium rufous, longitudinally striate, the ventral segments 

 tringed with long silvery hairs. Legs covered Mith long silvery 

 hairs ; the tibial spines testaceous ; the spurs white." 

 Hah. Poona. $ . Lenxjih a little over 6 mm. 



2G. Mutilla pondicherensis, JRad. ^- Sich. Hor. Soc. But. Boss, vi, 

 1869, p. 204, 2. 



5 . Head and thorax punctured, rugose; abdomen pubescent; the 

 head moderately wide, covered with scattered pubescence ; antennae 

 slightly thickened in the middle ; thorax from above squarish, 

 rucfose, truncate posteriorly ; the truncation rugulose, the sides 

 covered witli a decumbent pubescence ; 1st segment of the abdomen 

 carinated ; the pygidium flat and longitudinally striate. Black, the 

 thorax red, the pubescence on the head and thorax silvery, on the 

 abdomen black ; the apical margin of the 1st, two medial spots, one 

 above the other, on the 2nd segment, and the 3rd segment above 

 covered \Aith silvery pubescence ; legs black with scattered silvery 

 hairs. 



llah. Pondichery. $ . Length 11 mm. 



27. Mutilla rufitarsis. Smith, Neio Sp. Hym. B. M. p. 199. 



''' Mutilla taprobana?, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 p. 125. 



5 . Head and thorax finely, regularly, and very closely punc- 

 tux'ed ; abdomen densely pubescent ; head orbicular, narrower 

 than the thorax ; thorax rectangular, broad, anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly roundly truncate ; abdomen short, wide, broadly oval, 

 punctured under the pubescence ; the pygidium finely longitudi- 

 nally sti'iate. Head, legs, and abdomen black, v\ith black pubescence; 

 thorax red ; a large round spot in the middle of the 2nd abdominal 

 segment close to the base, another smaller on the middle of the 

 apical margin, with the narrow apical margin itself, and the whole 

 of the 3rd segment above covered with silvery white pubescence. 



Bah. India (Smith). $ . Length 11 mm. 



Prom the description it seems to me that M. taprohana^, Cam., is 

 only a variety of this species. 



28. Mutilla durga. 



Mutilla dives. Cam. (nee Smith, Cat. v, p. 32) Mem. Manch. L. Ph. 

 Soc. xli (1897). 



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

 punctured ; head small, not so wide as the thorax ; eyes large, 

 oval ; thorax from above nearly rectangular, anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly almost transverse, the sides deeply excavated, coarsely 

 reticulate ; abdomen densely pubescent. Black, the thorax in the 

 middle red, leaving a narrow black margin all round ; a circular 

 median spot at the base of the 2nd abdominal segment, another 

 close to the apical margin, and the entire 3rd segment above 



