MUTILLA. 33 



65. Mutilla chrysophthalma, King, St/mh. Phys., Lis. dec. 1, no. 17, 



pi. V, tig. 3 ; Rad. 8,- Sick. Hor. S'oc. Ent. Boss. 1869, p. 232. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen very roughly rugose, with scar- 

 like ridges ; thorax scarcely so broad as the head, rather elongate. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen red ; head with the occiput co\ered 

 with black, the front with white pubescence ; thorax above with 

 scattered black hairs ; abdomen above slightly fuscous, with black 

 pubescence, the 2nd segment with a large round spot on each 

 side, 3rd and 4th segments with a medial smaller spot of golden 

 pubescence ; legs red, with white pubescence. 

 Hub. Ceylon; Arabia. §. Length 11 mm. 



66. Mutilla nudiceps, Ayulre, Jow. Bomb. N. II. Soc. viii, 1893, 



pp. 4G6, 480, 2 . 



5 . Closely resembles M. af/nata, Andre. Differs in having the 

 head red, concolorous with the tliorax ; the head and thorax covered 

 with sparse erect brown hairs; the 1st segment of the abdomen 

 longer, the ferruginous golden pubescence at base of the 2nd segmeut 

 above reduced to two large, almost continent round spots, and the 

 legs reddish not ferruginous. The pygidium in J/, aynata is 

 punctured, in M. nudiceps longitudinally strongly striate. 



Hah. Canara ; Poona, Bombay Presidency, $ . Length 9- 

 12 mm. 



*67. Mutilla erythl'ocera. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc (4) v, 1892, 

 pp. 118, 131. 



2 . "Antennae, head, thorax, and legs for the greater part ferru- 

 ginous ; abdomen black, two large round macute on the 2nd seg- 

 ment, and the 3rd and 4th segments golden-fulvous. Head coarsely 

 rugosely punctured, and sparsely covered with long blackish hairs; 

 the hairs on the clypeus pale fulvous ; antenna! tubercles shining, 

 impunctate. Palpi testaceous ; eyes small, oval, in length about 

 as long as the third antennal joint, and situated before the lateral 

 middle line of the head, i. e. the space behind them is greater 

 than in front. Vertex roundly convex. The third antennal joint 

 not quite twice the length of the fourth, which is longer than the 

 second. Head wider than the thorax. Thorax more coarsely 

 punctured than the head; the mesonotum impunctate; the pro- 

 and metapleurag rugose ; the sides of the mesothorax rough, very 

 slightly concave ; eyes [? sides] of median segment bluntly serrate. 

 Abdomen about as long as the head and thorax united ; the hairs 

 on the 1st and 2nd segments black. Pygidium apparently finely 

 punctured ; ventral segment fringed with fulvous haire. Legs : 

 femora and coxa) piceous ; tibiie and tarsi ferruginous; the tibial 

 spines (H in a row) black ; the hair long, and pale fulvous. 



^^ Hah. Poona {Wronghlon). $, Length 9 mm." Unknown 

 to me. 



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