MUTII.LA. 19 



covered with silvery white pubescence, the sides and ventral 

 segments fringed with white hairs. 



Hab. Barracl\pore, Bengal. 5 . Length 8 mm. Type in coll. 

 B-othney. 



29. Mutilla suhglabra, A)idre, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1893, 



pp. 464, 472, 2 . 



2 . Head, thorax, and basal two abdominal segments minutely 

 and closely punctured, and covered with short erect hairs ; head 

 orbicular ; antennae long and massive, but less so than in M. pulht ; 

 thorax from above narrowl}'^ rectangular, the front and apex 

 steeper, and not so rounded as in M. pulla. Head and abdomen 

 black ; thorax red ; antenna^ black, with the scape and basal joint 

 of the flageilum red ; legs brown, tarsi testaceous ; a medial oval 

 spot near the base, and a large round spot at the apex of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment covered \Aith silvery pubescence. 



Hab. Canara, Bombay Presidency. $ . Length 4 mm. 



30. Mutilla conjungenda, Magr. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2») xii, 1892, 



p. 214, 2 6 . 



2 . Head coarsely and deeply punctured and rugose, about the 

 width of the thorax ; thorax short, posteriorly rounded, anteriorly 

 and in the middle minutely reticulate, posteriorlv more coarsely 

 reticulate with the papillse distinct ; the plate of the scutellum 

 small, scarcely projecting; the pleui'a3 smooth and opaque, pilose ; 

 the 1st abdominal segment above pilose, carrying beneath a distinct 

 emarginate carina ; the 2ud segment densely pubescent above, 

 beneath shining and sparsely punctured. Black, the basal half of 

 the mandibles, the base of the antennae, and the thorax rufo- 

 ferruginons ; a fimbria of silky yellow pubescence on the posterior 

 margins of the 1st and anal segments above and on the posterior 

 margins of all the ventral segments, a spot on the middle alx)ve of 

 the 2nd segment, a transverse band on its posterior margin, and 

 the whole of the 3rd segment covered with the same pubescence ; 

 the transverse band on the margin of the 2nd segment is produced 

 anteriorly into a triangular point in the middle ; the 1st segment 

 at base above covered with griseous, the 2ud with black pubescence. 



(S . Head strongly punctured and rugose, slightly shining; 

 eyes ovate, lightly emarginate, the ocellar area raistd and bearing 

 a carina down the middle ; the mandibles flat, branched, strongly 

 dilated, tridentate ; pro- and mesonutum minutely punctured, 

 metanotum with broad reticulations, the median portion obso- 

 letely lanceolate ; pro- and mesopleune punctured, metapleura; 

 smooth and shining; the 1st ventral segment carinated, the 

 carina distinct, linear and lightly emarginate in the middle. 

 Black, thorax rufo-ferruginous, the pectus black ; wings light 

 fuscous with a violet effulgence, the base hyaline ; the tegula; 

 black; the 1st abdominal segment with a marginal timbria, the 



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