42 mutillid.t:. 



d similar, with similar pubescence ; the mediim segment short, 

 reticulate, the sides produced hack into long sharp tuhercles. 

 Head, thorax in front, and the legs red; median segment and 

 abdomen black ; :in additional band of yellow pubescence on the 

 apical margin of the 2ud segment ; wings clear hyaline at base, 

 fuscous beyond the basal nervure in the fore aud the anal cell in 

 the hind Aving. 



Ilab. jNIadras. $. Lenr/th 17 mm. d . LeurftJi 1 5 ; e.r^^. 28 mm, 



92. Mutilla taylori, Andre, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii. 1893, pp. 4(37, 



469, $. 



2 • Head and thorax coarsely piuictured and sparsely covered 

 with erect hairs, abdomen more densely pubescent ; head nearly 

 as Mide as the thorax, orbicular ; thorax rectangular, the sides 

 parallel, irregularly denticulate ; posterior margin transverse, 

 denticulate above, M"ith the middle tooth produced into a spine ; 

 sides of the thorax smooth, posteriorly shining, finely and closely 

 punctured ; 2nd abdouiinal segment densely punctured. Head 

 brown, the front ajid \ertex and the thorax red ; scape of the 

 antennae and the basal joint of the flagellum, and the legs obscurely 

 red ; abdomen black, an oval spot in the middle of the 1st, a semi- 

 circular one at the apical margin of the 2nd, and a smaller one at 

 the apical margin ot the 3rd segment, of white pubescence. 



Hab. Orissa (Taylor). Length 5 mm. 



93. Mutilla argentipes, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 31, $ . 



$ . Head, thorax, and ba^al two abdominal segments coarsely 

 reticulate punctate, the rest of the abdomen less coarsely punctured ; 

 head small, orbicular, not nearly so wide as the thorax ; thorax 

 much broader in front than posteriorly, anteriorly rounded, pos- 

 teriorly roundly truncate, Mith an actite prominent tubercle on 

 each side before the middle ; abdomen petiolate, basal segment 

 short, campanulate, its posterior margin much depressed below the 

 roundly truncate anterior margin of the -nd abdominal segment. 

 Obsciu'ely fuscous brown, with sparse fuscous ])ubesceuce, the 

 thorax gradually changing into ferruginous posteriorly and covered 

 vitli sparse short golden pubescence; basal two-thirds of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment also ferruginous, with golden pubescence ; a 

 large round spot on the head, a spot in the middle of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment, and a spot on each side near the apical margin, 

 also a smaller round spot in the middle of each of the following three 

 segments, covered with silvery white pubescence ; legs black, w ith 

 a little silvery pubescence above. 



Hah. Bombay. $ . Length 9-12 nun. 



94. Mutilla opulenta. Smith, Cat. ill, p. 84, cT . 



S . Head coarsely punctured, densely pubescent above and on 

 the front, a hollow on each side of the base of the antenna? leading 



