28 MUTILLID^. 



thau the inner ; thorax in front transverse, posteriorly sharply 

 truncate, the face of the truncation smooth 

 but opaque. Black, the scape and iirst joint of 

 the Hagellum of the antenna) rufescent ; the 

 vertex and back of the head, the thorax, and 

 the base of the 1st abdominal segment red ; 

 three large spots placed in a triangle on the 

 2nd segment above, a lunate elongate spot in the 

 middle of its posterior margin, a band covering 

 the 3rd segment, and the sides of the apical 

 , segment with silvery white pubescence. 



MutiUa pandora, ^«^- Bhamo, Upper Burma {L. Fea); Bor- 



5. 5. neo, Sarawak. $. Length 10 mm. 



50. Mutilla kanthellse *, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 pp. 119, 124. 



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

 punctured and pubescent ; head subglobose, not broader than the 

 thoi^ax ; eyes ovate ; thorax from above longish rectangular, the 

 lateral margins crenulate and lightly emarginate ; median segment 

 rounded posteriorly, its lateral angles produced into a sharp well- 

 marked tooth ; abdomen broad, sliort, much broader than the 

 thorax. Black, a spot on the vertex and the thorax in the middle 

 deep red, the margins of the latter above, in front, and on the 

 sides narrowly black ; abdomen with five pubescent white spots — 

 one at the apex of the basal segment, two sublateral close to the 

 base, and two close to each other on the apical margin of the 2nd 

 segment. 



Hah. Kanthellai, Ceylon. ?. Lemjtli 12 mm. Type in coll. 

 Eothney. 



51. Mutilla maculiceps, Andre, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1893, 

 pp. 468, 481, 5 . 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pubescent ; the head, thorax, 

 and the basal segment of the abdomen somewhat coarsely 

 punctured ; head not strongly convex in front, compressed and 

 narrowed at the back ; thorax suboval, rounded anteriorly, narrowed 

 and somewhat sloping posteriorly, the sides smooth. Bead, thorax 

 round the margins narrowly, and abdomen black, the thorax along 

 the middle above ferruginous red; antennaj and legs black, the 

 basal two segments of the abdomen beneath obscurely red; the 

 pubescence on the middle of the thorax golden, on the abdomen 

 black ; a large spot on the front and vertex of the head, a spot on 

 either side at the base and two similar smaller ones at the apex 

 of the 2nd abdominal segment, with two still smaller ones on the 

 brd segment, covered with snow-white pubescence. 



Hah. Poona, Bombay Presidency. $ . Length 7 mm. 



* The origiual spelling ol' this name, kauthdlcB, is a mistake or misprint. 



