30 MUTILLID^. 



granular; thorax elongate-quadrate, somewhat wide, nearly half 

 as long again as broad, the sides straight, above densely punctured ; 

 the mesopleurse excavated ; the metapleura? punctured ; 2nd 

 abdominal segment above densely, beneath sparsely punctured ; 

 pygidium punctured and striolate. Head black, the vertex and 

 front rufescent; antennce rufo -fuscous ; mandibles and ciypeus 

 fuscous black ; thorax red ; abdomen nigro-fuscous, a spot at the 

 base of the 2nd segment and broad fascia on the 3rd segment of 

 silvery pubescence, the remaining segments with whitish hairs ; 

 apical segment red ; legs black, the femora rufescent. 



Var. The whole of the head red, the fascia on the 3rd segment 

 rupted in the middle. 



Ilab. Ceylon ; Timor ; Luzon. $ . Len/jtli 7 mm. 



56. Mutilla variegata, Smith, Cat. ili, p. 39, J . 



$ . Head and thorax closely and somewhat coarsely rugose, the 

 punctures running into reticulations on the disc of the thorax ; 

 this latter transverse in front, broadening towards the middle and 

 suddenly and somewhat acutely narrowed posteriorly ; the sides 

 flat, punctured, with a broad oblique ridge in the middle ; abdomen 

 longitudinally, closely, and deeply striate above, pubescent ; the 

 1st ventral segment without a carina. Black, the head, thorax, 

 and legs with griseous, and the abdomen with black pubescence ; 

 the apical margins of the basal three segments with transverse 

 bands of glittering golden hairs, continued on the underside on the 

 2nd and 3rd, and with a large round spot of the same on the 

 middle of the 2nd segment above. 



Hah. Burma, extending up to North China. $ . Lenrjth 

 15 mm. 



57. Mutilla funeraria, Smiflu Cat. iii, p. 37, $ . 



2 . Head and thorax closely and finely punctured ; head about 

 as wide as the thorax ; eyes large in proportion, ovate ; thorax 

 long, anteriorly produced into a collar or neck, posteriorly shghtly 

 narrowed and" steeply sloped, the sides very slightly emarginate 

 and smooth; abdomen still more finely punctured, pubescent 

 above. Black, a lunate mark on the apical margin of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment and the extreme apex of the abdomen with 

 silverv white hairs. 



Hah. Northern India (Smith). $ . Length 11 mm. 



58. Mutilla arenaria, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i, p. 312, 18; Smith, Cat. iii, 



p. 9, 53 ; Had. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, viii, 18G9, p. 242. 

 Mutilla desertorum, Bad. Bull. Soc. Nat. 3Iosc. 1865, p. 452, 

 pi. viii, fig. 4, var. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen densely pubescent, the 

 pubescence hiding most of the -puncturing and sculpture of the 

 body ; head orbicular, scarcely so wide as the thorax ; thorax 

 strongly convex above, broader in front than behind, anteriorly 



