40 MUTILLID^. 



posteriorly, the basal segment of the abdomen much narrowed, 

 riat and somewhat obliquely truncate anteriorly and constricted at 

 its apical margin. Head, thorax, legs, and basal segment of 

 abdomen dark red, the rest of the abdomen black with black 

 pubescence, the red colour on the head and anterior two-thirds of 

 the thorax above covered with dense matted pale gold pubescence; 

 the basal half of the 2nd abdominal segmeut dark red iu certain 

 lights, M'ith a medial round spot at its base and three similar sub- 

 apical spots above covered with silvery pubescence. 

 Hah. Poona. $ . Length 8"5 mm. 



*87. Mutilla optima, Smith, Cat. iii. p. 34, 5 . 



$ . " Length 3 lines ( = 7 millim.). Head, thorax, and legs ferru- 

 ginous ; the pubescence on the face silvery, that on the vertex 

 gold-coloured ; tips of the mandibles piceous. Thorax subovate, 

 narrowed behind, thinly sprinkled with golden hairs, and having 

 at the sides a few long black and also a few white ones ; the legs 

 have a glittering silvery pubescence ; the spines which arm the 

 intermediate and posterior tibitB externally, and also those at the 

 apex of the joints of the tarsi, black ; the calcaria pale testaceous. 

 Abdomen black ; the basal joint red, and having a spot above, a 

 second ovate spot at the base of the 2nd segment and a third at 

 its apex in the middle, and a larger one at each side, of bright 

 ghttering silvery pubescence ; the 3rd segment has a central spot 

 of the same colour and brilliancy ; beneath rufo-piceous at the 

 base, and having the apical margins of the 2nd and 3rd segments 

 fringed with silvery white pubescencf." 



Hah. India (Smith). 



*88. Mutilla pulchriventris, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Th. >Soc. (4) v, 

 1892, pp. 121, 127. 



5 . " Head and antennae red, the latter covered on the top thickly 

 with pale golden pubescence, hiding the ground-colour ; thorax 

 dull red ; abdomen, a small spot longer than broad at the base and 

 two broader than long on the apex of the 2nd segment, white ; 

 legs red, the femora and tibiae more or less purple. Head wider 

 than the thorax ; eyes large, oval, reaching quite close to the top of 

 the head .... Thorax elongate, rounded at the base and apex, 

 concave near the middle, distinctly narrowed towards the apex, 

 above coarsely punctured ; the median segment with the punctures 

 larger, deeper, rounder, and more widely separated ; pleurse coppery, 

 the meso covered thickly with white hair ; the mesonotum with 

 long black hair, and with a short Avhite glistening sparse pubes- 

 cence. Abdomen oval, wider than the thorax, narrowed at base 

 and apex, closely punctured and bearing long black hairs ; pygi- 

 dium impunctate, from the apex of the penultimate segment spring 

 two masses of white hair. Legs covered with pale hair ; there are 

 three rows of tibial spines, the calcaria white. 



Hab. Poona (Wi^oaghton). Length 9 mm." Unknown to me. 



