50 MUTILLIDJE. 



114. Mutilla perversa, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



<S . Head and thorax finely punctured, thinly pubescent ; median 

 segment coarsely reticulate ; abdomen smooth and shining, the 

 pubescence, especially on the apical four segments, longer and 

 closer than on the head and thorax ; the scutellum and postscutel- 

 lum raised, prominent, and coarsely punctured. Head of a dark 

 obscure reddish black, thorax red, abdomen black, the pubescence 

 cinereous ; wings fusco-hyaline, nervures testaceous, teguloo red. 



Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal. J. Length 5; ex2). 10 mm. 

 Type in coll. Eothney. 



*115. Mutilla miranda, Stnith, Cat. Hi, p. 33, S- 



" d" . Length 6 lines (= 13-5 mm.). Head ferruginous, nar- 

 rower than the thorax ; eyes emarginate ; antennas black. The 

 prothorax and mesothorax ferruginous ; metathorax and thorax 

 beneath as well as the legs black, the latter clothed with pale 

 glittering pubescence ; the metathorax broad, produced at its 

 lateral angles ; the wings brown, their base hyaline. Abdomen 

 black, the second segment having on each side a large spot of 

 white pubescence, the third and fourth segments clothed with 

 white pubescence." 



Mab. India {Sinith). 



116. Mutilla provida. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and rather closely punc- 

 tured, thinly pubescent, the punctures on the mesonotum coarser 

 than on the rest of the body ; median segment rounded posteriorly, 

 with a steep slope to the apex, coarsely reticulate above. Black, 

 the prothorax above and on the pleurae, and the mesonotum red ; 

 the pubescence white ; the wings fusco-hyaline, nervures dark 

 testaceous, tegulse red. 



Hab. Bombay. S- Length 7; ea-j). 13 mm. Type in coll. 

 Eothney. 



117. Mutilla sejugoides. 



Mutilla (Dasvlabris) sejugoides, Mapr. Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. (2°) xii, 

 1892, p. 234, cJ . 



S . Head, mesonotum, scutellum, postscutellum, and abdomen 

 somewhat coarsely, pronotum finely and closely punctured. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen more or less pubescent ; head from above 

 broad, flattish, almost square ; mesonotum with two abbreviated 

 longitudinal furrows bounded by fine carinae on each side ; median 

 segment reticulate, rounded posteriorly ; abdomen with the 1st 

 segment narrowed into a sort of petiole, which viewed sideways is 

 subapically swollen above as in certain forms of Social Wasps 

 (Icaria). Black, the pro- and mesonotum and pro- and mesopleurse 

 red, the pubescence black, the transverse bands on the apical 



