38 aiUTILLID.^. 



has laterally a broad tooth roundly incised at the apex, the sides are 

 not contracted nor serrate, ouly waved, and the median segment is 

 rounded. 



Hub. Poona {Wroucjhton). $. Lemjth 5 mm. Unknown to 

 me. 



*yi. Mutilla pusilla. Smith, Cat. ill, p. .37, $ . 



" $ . Length 2 lines (about 5 mm.). Head, thorax, and legs ferru- 

 ginous ; head about the same width as the thorax and strongly 

 punctured. Thorax oblong-quadrate, roughly punctured ; legs 

 pale rut'o-testaoeous, the femora, tibiae, and joints of the tarsi 

 palest towards then- bases ; the legs sprinkled with a bright glitter- 

 ing silvery white pubescence ; the calcaria white. Abdomeu black, 

 the extreme base and apex ferruginous ; the 2nd segment haviug 

 at its base a central ovate spot of golden pubescence ; its apical 

 margin fringed with silvery hairs, also a spot of the same colour 

 in the middle of tlip following s 'ginents ; beneath, the uiargins of 

 the segments fringed M'ith silvery hairs." 



llab. Northern India {Smith). 



82. Mutilla lunarifasciata, Andre, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 18U3, 



pp. 4t)G, 470, ? . 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomeu ch)sely ]junclured, the punctures 

 fine on tlie head, rather coarser on the t orax and base of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment, with a tendenc}^ on the thorax to form longi- 

 tudinal striae ; abdomen densely pubescent ; head orbicular, strongly 

 convex in front; thorax irregularly quadrangular, strongly convex 

 above, anteriorly and posteriorly rounded, the sides Maved at the 

 Tipper margins, the posterior mai'gin denticulate, with a short 

 spine in the middle. Head and thorax dark reddish ferrugiuous, 

 the scape of the antennae brownish, the Hagelluin black ; the legs 

 pale ferruginous, with scattered yellow hairs ; abdomen black, with 

 black pubescence, 1st segment nearly covered by a large triangular 

 spot, extending on to the base Of the 2nd segment, of golden yellow 

 pubescence, apical margins of the 2nd and 3rd segments with 

 trausverse lunate spots of the same pubescence, and the apical 

 segment with a few yellow hairs. 



Ilab. Colaba, Bombay. 2 • Length 7 mm. 



83. Mutilla puerilis. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Fh. Soc. xli (1897). 



2 • Head broad, subquadrate above ; eyes rather small, subcircular, 

 the upper part slightly narrowed and prolonged upwards and 

 back\\ards ; head coarsely and rather distantly, thorax closely and 

 coarsel}', and abdomen finely punctured, pubescent ; thorax from 

 above oblong, the lateral margins lightly creuulate, the sides 

 strongly excavated, smooth, the aj)ex rounded ; the prouotum in 

 front almost trans\erse, the anterior lateral angles slightly produced. 

 Head and thorax red, the face above the base of the antenna) 



