48 AIUTILLID^. 



the mandibles long ;■ the posterior margin of the pronotum obtusely 

 arched, with a wide pubescent fascia ; raesopleurae densely, the 

 legs sparsely pubescent ; mesonotum coarsely punctured above, 

 the disc with a median longitudinal carina, and other parallel 

 carinje, two on each side, the outer ones short, the posterior 

 lateral angles subprominent ; the tegulse large, campanulate ; 

 scutellum slightly elevated, reticulate ; the anterior half of the 

 median segment above densely pubescent, hiding the sculpture of 

 the surface ; abdomen smooth and shining, minutely and sparsely 

 punctured, pubescent ; the ventral anal segment with a round 

 concave impressed mark, and close to the apex two curved spines. 

 Black, the abdomen rnfo-ferruginous, the base of the 1st, the apex 

 of the 6th, and the whole of the apical segment black; the pub- 

 escence on the head Avhite, on the thorax fulvous white, and on the 

 abdomen griseous, with the margins of the segments golden ; the 

 anal segment with a little reddish hair ; the calcaria of the tibiae 

 white, the spines on the tarsi ferruginous ; the wings fuscous, 

 h'ghtly suffused with purplish effulgence, the radial cell lanceolate, 

 the apex truncate, and three complete cubital cells not extending 

 beyond the apex of the radial cell. 



Bah. Bhamo, Upper Burma. c? . Length 15 ; exp. 31 mm. 



108. Mntilla exiloides, 3Iagi\ Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2 ) xii, 1892, 



p. 232, c?. 



S . Head, viewed from the front, subtriangular above, flat and 

 sloping backwards, longitudinally finely striate; thorax densely 

 punctured and rugose, median segment somewhat coarsely reticu- 

 late ; abdomen elongate, slender, fusiform, the bases of the seg- 

 ments sparsely punctured and shining. Jet-black, covered more 

 or less densely with silvery white pubescence, which forms dense 

 silvery transverse bands on the basal four abdominal segments 

 above ; the apical three segments with black pubescence ; wings 

 fuscous with a purple effulgence, hyaline at base. 



Hah. Karen Hills, Burma. J • Length 12 ; e.vp. 25 mm. 



109. Mutilla circumscribenda, Magr. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2") xii, 



1892, p. 233, S- 



S . Extremely close to M. exiloides, of which it may be only a 

 larger form. The head is not so prominently subti'iangular, pro- 

 duced backwards ; the abdomen is not so slender, and the basal 

 three (not four) segments only are banded with silvery white 

 pubescence. 



Hah. Karen Hills, Burma. S . Length 14-15; exp. 28 mm. 



110. Mutilla discreta, Cam. Mem. Manck. L. Ph. Soc. xii (1897). 

 Mutilla nigra, Binffh. {nee Smith) A.M. N. H. (6) xvi, 189o, p. 440. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pubescent ; head and pronotum 

 finely and closely, mesonotum, scutellum, and postscutellum 

 coarsely, and abdomen somewhat more finely and distantly punc- 

 tured ; the median segment posteriorly rounded, with a steep slope, 



