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transverse with the lateral angles somewhat rounded, posteriorly 

 coiicavo-truncate ; abdomen petiolate, the basal segment small, 

 narrowed, much depressed below the base of the 2nd segment ; 

 pygidium longitudinally and coarsely striate. Black, with black 

 pubescence ; a round spot on the front, the thorax above, a medial 

 round spot near the base of the 2nd abdominal segment, a verv 

 broad transverse fascia, angularly emarginate in the middle 

 anteriorly, on the apical margin of the same, and an ovate spot 

 at the base of the 6th extending on to the apical margins of 

 the 4th and 5th segments, covered with pale yellowish-white 

 pubescence. 



Hah. Karachi ; Bombay. 5 . Length 11-15 mm. 



*59. Mutilla semiaurata. Smith, Cat. ill, p. 36, 2 6- 



" 2 . Length 5 lines (about 11 mm.). Black, the head, meso- 

 thorax anteriorly, raetathorax and legs clothed with silvery-white 

 pubescence ; the abdomen densely clothed with bright pale golden 

 pubescence, except the apical segment, which is black, and has a 

 central silvery-white pubescent spot ; beneath, the margins of the 

 segments are fringed with silvery hairs, the 2nd segment coarsely 

 punctured and having a central longitudinal carina. 



" (S . Clothed as in the other sex ; the eyes ovate, the wings dark 

 fuscous, palest towards their base. 



" Hah. India (Smith)." 



60. Mutilla remota. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen coarsely but closely and evenly 

 punctured, pubescent ; thorax suboval, the emarginate hollows on 

 the sides with the keel between them slight, the face of the 

 emarginations as closely and coarsely punctured as the rest of the 

 thorax. Black, the pubescence black : on the tibiae and tarsi of 

 the legs and the apex of the median segment golden yellow ; 

 abdomen with broad transverse bands of golden-yellow pubescence 

 on the apical margins of the 1st and 2nd and the base of the 3rd 

 segment, the 4th segment entirely covered with the same ; the 

 inner orbits narrowly, the outer orbits broadly, and the sides of 

 the pronotum obscure red. 



IJah. Trincomali, Ceylon. $ . Length 15 mm. Type in coll. 

 Eothuey. This species maybe the $ of M. exacta, Smith. 



61. Mutilla Cicatrificera, Atidre, Join: Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1893, 



pp. 4'JO, 477, $ . 



$ . Head, thorax, and basal two abdominal segments above very 

 coarsely and closely, and the bases of the remaining segments 

 finely punctured; the head and thorax covered with erect line 

 hairs ; the abdomen densely pubescent ; head orbicular, strongly 

 convex in front; thorax from above rectangular, anteriorly trans- 

 verse, but \< itli a sort of collar between it and the head, the lateral 

 margins crenulate, the apex somewhat sloping ; 2nd ventral 



