MUriLLA. 39 



slightly fuscous ; abdomen black with black pubescence, a large 

 central spot of pale golden pubescence on the apical margins of the 

 first three segments above, and the extreme apex of the abdomeu 

 clothed with white hairs. 



Hah. Cevlou. $ . Length 8 mm. Type in coll. Eothney. 



*64. Mutilla poonaensis, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. I'h. Sue. (4) v, 1892, 

 pp. 121, 129. 



$ . " Head, thorax, and base of abdomen rufo-testaceous ; abdo- 

 meu black, with a purplish gloss, a small white mark on the secoud. 

 segmeut near the base and a baud on its apex glistening white. 

 Antenna) of moderate length, stout, the third joint not much 

 longer than the fourth. Head a little broader than the thorax, 

 closely and coarsely punctured, covered with white glistening hairs ; 

 the autennal tubercles impunclate ; eyes large, oblong, reaching 

 quite close to the head. Thorax much more closely punctured 

 than the head ; the prothorax rounded in front ; the median 

 segmeut with a gradual rounded slope to the apex, coarsely punc- 

 tured; mesopleuraj shining, impunctate ; the thorax covered with 

 longish, fuscous to glistening w hite hairs. Abdomen subpetiolate, 

 narrowed at the base ; pygidium impunctate, covered with long 

 fuscous and white hairs. Legs covered with long white hairs ; 

 the calcaria white. The sides of the thorax slightly narrowed 

 from base to apex. 



'' Hah. Poona ( \Y rowjhtoii). $ . Lewjtli 6 mm." Unknown to 

 me. 



*b5. Mutilla rufiventris, Sm*th. Cat. iii, p. 36 ; Cam. Mem. Manch L. 

 Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, p. 121.' 



5 . " Head, thorax, and legs ferruginous ; head subovate, rather 

 wider than the thorax, sparingly and finely punctured, autenuce 

 ferruginous. Thorax oblong, longitudinally rugose ; legs rufo- 

 testaceous, varying in depth of colour and having a sparing 

 glittering white pubescence. Abdomen, the basal seguient has au 

 ovate spot in the middle of its apical margin, and in the middle of 

 the apical margins of the 2nd and iird segments is a half-circular 

 sj)ot of silvery white pubescence ; the entire abdomen thinly 

 sprinkled with long while hairs ; the extreme apex of the abdomen 

 as well as beneath ferruginous. 



" Bab. India (coll. W. \V. JSauaders, Esq.).'' 2 . Length 2-3 lines 

 =about 4"5-7 mm. 



8G. Mutilla auropalliata, Andr^, Jour. Bomb. N. II. Soc. viii, 1893, 

 pp. 407, 482, 2 ■ 



2 . Head, thorax, and basal two segments of the al>doinen 

 coarsely punctured, the head and the anterior tuo-thirds of the 

 thorax above densely pubescent, the pul)escence hiding the sculp- 

 turing; head orbicular, convex in front, about as broad as the 

 thorax ; the thorax ovate, somewhat rounded in front, narrowed 



