MUTILLA. 



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apex of the median segment, tlie legs, the base of the 1st 

 abdominal segment, and the posterior margins ot thelird and apical 

 segments with erect golden hairs, the rest of the pubescence 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon. $ . Length 11 mm. Type in coll. Kothney. 



77. Mntilla atomus, Andre, Jour, Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1893, pp. 463, 



47.3,$. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely punctured, the punctures 

 close on the thorax, more sparse on the head and abdomen ; head 

 orbicular, eyes rather small, antennae massive, the head not quite 

 so wide as the thorax ; the thorax from above rectangular, slightly 

 compressed in the middle, obhquely sloping at apex ; abdomen 

 with the apical segment longitudinally tiuely striate. Head, 

 thorax, antennae, and legs ferruginous red ; abdomen black, the 

 2nd and following segments with bands, slightly enlarged in the 

 middle, of white pubescence: of these bands, that on the 2nd 

 segment only is well-marked, the others probably through attrition 

 are ill-defined. 



Hab. Canara, Bombay Presidency. $ . LaiK/th 3 mm. 



*78. Mutilla denticoUis, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mo.<c. xxxvi, pt. 2, 

 18(33, p. 22, $ . 



" Opaque with a granular appearance, sparsely pubescent, red, 

 with abdomen acuminate, blacli, a narrow fascia posteriorly, and 

 the apex with a little white pubescence, 1st segment broadly 

 brown in the middle ; antennae and legs rufo-testaceous ; head 

 round, convex, rugosely punctured ; eyes large, black, not very 

 prominent ; thorax very little wider than the head, elongate, 

 rectangular, rugose with a granular appearance, prominent, the 

 lateral margins with six teeth, slightly constricted in the middle, 

 the lateral angles produced; abdomen conical, densely punctured; 

 the tibiae pilose and furnished posteriorly with four long spmes." 



Hah. Xuwara Eiiya, Ceylon. $ . Length 2| lines=about mm. 



*79. Mutilla COromandelica, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat.'3Iosc. xxxvi, pt. 2, 

 18G3, p. 23; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, p. 118. 



2 . Closely resembling M. denticoUis, Motsch., but narrower, 

 more slender, with the sides of the thorax not dentate. Coloration 

 similar to M. denticoUis, but the abdomen without the brown tint 

 anteriorly. 



Hah. Madura, Southern India. Unknown to me. 



*80. Mutilla veda, Catn. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 



pp. 123, 130. 



$. Very closely allied to M. serratula, Cam. (p. 2()) : differs in 



having the head red, and in having a spot on the 2nd abdominal 



segment ; the pygidium is clothed with fulvous hairs; the thorax 



