MUTILLID^. 47 



Common in some sandy localities, Deal, Woking, Chat- 

 ham ; Bournemouth ; Hayling Island. Plumstead ; Charlton, 

 near Greenwich ; Sandown, Isle of Wight ; Southend ; 

 Weybridge ; St. Margaret's Bay; [Sviith). Parley Heath ; 

 (Dale). Norwich ; (-C?-t(f(/ma?i). Lowestoft ; (il/oci'cc). 



MYRMOSA, Latr. 



(S much larger than the ? , winged, ? apterous, antenna? 

 (? thirteen-jointed, ? twelve jointed. Ocelli dcvelojjed in 

 both sexes, eyes round, not siuuated on the inner margin ; 

 wings of the S with three submarginal cells ; segments of 

 the abdomen much impressed at the base, second segment 

 looked at sideways more than twice as deep as the first, 

 apical ventral valve simple; ? mutilliform, intermediate 

 C0X8B contiguous. There are only four or five known species 

 of this genus, of which we have one in this country. Very 

 little is known of the habits of the species. 



M. melanocephala, Fah. — <? black, very largely and 

 rugosely punctured, clothed with erect silvery liaii's ; pro- 

 notum arcuately emarginate posteriorly, mesonotum with 

 two very short longitudinal impressions posteriorly, wings 

 smoky, nervures black, scutellum and propodeum with a 

 central longitudinal impression ; abdomen with the seg- 

 ments depressed at the base, apical dorsal valve bifid, with 

 a deep longitudinal impression near the apex, first and 

 second segments beneath each with a basal tooth-like 

 spine, all the segments ciliated with pale hairs ; tibise 

 and tarsi densely clothed with short pale semi-adpressed 

 hairs. 



$ clothed with short pale hairs, head black, largely 

 punctured, antennse and mouth parts testaceous, the former 

 dusky towards the apex ; thorax testaceous red, rugose, 

 pronotum about half as long as the meso and meta-notum 

 together, divided from the mesonotum by a nearly straight 

 sutui'o ; abdomen very strongly punctured on the basal 



