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its posterior margin, the 3rd. segment entirely, and the posterior 

 margin of the 4th segment covered with silkj yellow pile. 

 Hah. Tenasseriin (^Meetan). $ . Length 5 mm. 



*33. Mutilla buddha, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 pp. 117, 132. 



" 5 . Black, the thorax ferruginous ; an oval spot on the base 

 of second segment and the whole of the third pale golden-fulvous. 

 Head narrower than thorax, very coarsely punctured, almost 

 reticulated. ; eyes large, oval, antennal tubercles inipunctate ; vertex 

 not much raised above the eyes, roundly convex ; the clypeus 

 fringed with long fulvous, the rest of the head sparsely with 

 fuscous hairs ; mandibles piceous in the middle. Scape covered 

 with pale fulvous hairs ; the ilagellum with a pale dow^n, brownish 

 beneath; the third joint not much longer than the fourth, shorter 

 than the fourth and fifth united. Thorax coarsely longitudinally 

 reticulated ; the pleune entirely impunctate, becoming gradually 

 but not much narrowed from extreme base to apex ; the edges 

 rough, but without any distinct tubercles : apex of median segment 

 obliquely sloped. Abdomen longer than the head and thorax 

 united ; the tirst segment dilated, the second segment longitudi- 

 nally punctured; the others v\ith their apices shining, impunctate, 

 glabrous; the pygidium coarsely pimctured ; the extreme apex 

 finely transversely striate ; the apical ventral segments fringed 

 with long fulvous hairs. Legs : the femora sparsely covered with 

 longish blackish hairs, the tibiae and tarsi thickly with pale fulvo- 

 golden ; the calcaria and the bristles on the underside of the tarsi 

 rufous; the four tibial spines stout, black. 



'■'Hah. Poena {Wrouyhtou). § . Length 11 mm/' 



34. Mutilla COronata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 369; Sauss. Novara 



Reise, Hym. p. 106, $ . 



2 . Head, thorax, and 2nd abdominal segment coarsely punc- 

 tured; thorax posteriorly rounded, sloped transversely, rugose 

 and granular, armed above at base with a minute erect lamella; 

 abdomen densely pubescent. Head and abdomen black ; thorax 

 red, with cinereous pubescence on the sides, fuscous above ; the 

 basal segment of the abdomen ciliated with whitish fulvous hairs, 

 2nd segment with a round spot close to the base covered with 

 white pubescence, the margin of the segment sometimes ciliated 

 with white hairs, 3rd segment with white pubescence beneath ; 

 antennae and legs black, the scape of the former rufescent. 



Hah. Europe; Ceylon {Sauss.). §. Length lU mm. 



35. Mutilla decora, Rmith, Nfw Sp. Hym. B. M. p. -200 ; Magr. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. (2^') xii, 1892, p. 2'l3. 



$ . Head and thorax sparsely, abdomen densely pubescent ; 



