MUTILLA, L'3 



a laferal one on the 3rcl, and a medial one on the otii and Gth of 

 snow-white pubescence ; wings fuscous, sublivaline at base. 



Hah. Bombay; Ahmedabad {Miss A. Brook). $. Leurjth 

 12-16 mm. J . Length 15 ; ed-p. 29 mm. 



38. Mutilla kohli, Mar/r. Ann. Mus. Cio. Gen. (2«) xii, 1802, p. 217, 2 • 



$ . Head as wide as the thorax, in front longitudinally 

 punctured and rugose, on the vertex coarsely furrowed ; thorax 

 suboval, its lateral margins distinctly emarginate and toothed, the 

 pronotum above minutely punctured, mesonotum coarsely and 

 deeply longitudinally reticulate and rugose ; plate of the scutellum 

 absent, but in place of it a line of distinct papillte on the middle 

 above; metathorax roundly declivous, coarsely reticulate, furnished 

 on the posterior lateral angles with two strong spines, their apices 

 obtuse and sub-bilid, also other smaller acute spines in the middle 

 above ; abdomen, particularly at the base of the 1st and on the 

 apical half of the 2nd and following segments, densely and the 

 sides sparsely pubescent ; the carina on the 1st ventral segment 

 nearly or completely obsolete. Black, thorax fusco-ferrugiuous, 

 a subrectangular oval macula of yellowish white pubescence on 

 the posterior margin of the 1st abdominal segment, other narrow 

 arched indistinct spots of the same in the middle at the base 

 of the 2nd segment, with two large triangular patches on its 

 apical margin ; linear yellow pubescent spots also on the apical 

 margins of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments, and the anal segment 

 fringed on both sides with yellowish hairs ; the femora and tibiae 

 sparsely, and the tarsi densely covered with greyish pubescence ; 

 the apical margins of the ventral abdominal segments pale and 

 sparsely ciliated ; the pubescence on the abdomen above black, and 

 on the sides mixed with grey hairs. 



Var. a. The scape and apex of the flagellum of the antenure 

 ruf o-f erruginous . 



Var. b. The anterior legs and posterior femora obscurely 

 ferruginous. 



Ilab. Bhamo, Upper Burma. $ . Length 7 mm. 



39. Mutilla COtesi, dun. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Sue. xli (1897). 



2 . Closely resembles M. rothnet/i (p. 27), but the head is more 

 globular, the eyes smaller, circular, and less prominent, the sides of 

 the thorax not studded with sharp spines, but only crenulate, and 

 the median segment has no central spine posteriorly : in colour 

 the present species differs in having the head black, with a central 

 spot of white pubescence on the forehead, the sides of the thorax 

 and legs dark red, and the pubescent white spots on the abdonu'ii 

 smaller. 



Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal. $ . Length 8 mm. Type in coll. 

 Kothney. 



