32 MUTILLID^. 



segment with a medial carina at base. Head, thorax, and legs 

 dark red; abdomen black, two large round confluent spots at 

 base above, and the narrow apical margin of the 2nd segment, 

 with broad apical bands on the remaining segments, covered with 

 ferruginous golden pubescence. 



Hab. Canara, Bombay Presidency. $ . Length 11 mm. 



62. Mutilla aurifrons. Smith, Cat. iii, p. 31, $ . 



§. "Length .5 lines (about 11 mm.). Brownish-red, the 

 sides of the thorax and abdomen having some dusky stains ; the 

 face and vertex densely clothed with short bright golden pubes- 

 cence ; the antennse ferruginous, having the flagellum fuscous 

 above, except the two or three basal joints. Thorax elongate- 

 ovate, slightly narrowed behind ; legs bright ferruginous and 

 having a pale glittering pubescence. Abdomen: the second seg- 

 ment having two minute spots of golden pubescence, its apical 

 margin having a fascia of yellowish-white pubescence, and being 

 notched in the middle ; the following segments have a thick 

 marginal fringe of bright reddish-yellow pubescence." 



Hah. India (Smith). Unknown to me. 



*63, Mutilla diversa, Stiiith, Cat. iii, p. 32 ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. 

 Soc. (4) V, 1892, p. 118. 



2 . " Head and thorax red, the former rounded at the sides 

 and narrowed anteriorly ; antennae and mandibles red, the legs 

 red and having a thin pale glittering pubescence ; the head and the 

 thorax above thinly covered with erect black hairs. Abdomen 

 black ; the basal segment having a patch and the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments an ovate spot on each side on their apical margins of 

 pale golden pubescence, beneath obscure red." 



Hab. India (Smith). 2 • Length 4| lines =about 10 mm. 



64. Mutilla dives, Smith, Cat. iii. p. 32, 172, $ ; Cam. Mem. Manch. 

 L. Ph. Soc. (4)v, 1892, p. 118. 



2 . Head rather finely longitudinally punctate and thinly 

 pubescent ; thorax more coarsely punctured, from above subrect- 

 angular, broader posteriorly than in front, the sides emarginate ; 

 the pleurae smooth, with no dividing carinae between the pro-, 

 meso-. and metapleurae ; abdomen densely pubescent above, smooth 

 and shining beneath, the 2nd-5th ventral segments fimbriated 

 along their apical margins. Head and thorax red ; legs dark rufo- 

 piceous ; tarsi paler, the pubescence pale golden, the calcaria 

 white ; abdomen black above with black pubescence, the 2nd 

 segment has two lateral elongate oval spots of rich golden pubes- 

 cence, the 3rd two quadrate silvery spots, the 5th a silvery spot 

 on the apical margin above in the middle; beneath, the abdomen 

 is testaceovis red. 



Hah. India (Smith). $ . LengtJi 6-10 mm. 



