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angles acute, cheeks beneath armed witb a streng tooth; mand. iisually 

 bidentate, rarely simple, the outer tooth much the longer). Ashmead) 

 1. c. p. 55. 



Eurymutilla n. g. (Charakt. ^■. Thorax fully as wide as long, hexag.; head 

 subglobose, much narrower thau thorax ; mand. simple, acute at apex, eden- 

 tate; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, labials 3-jointed. — $: Marg. cell broadly 

 truncated at apex etc. im Gegens. zu Nomiaephagns u. Pyrrhomutilla). 

 Ashmead, 1. c. p. 56 ^, 59 9. 



Hoplomutilla n. g. (Type: M. spinosa Roed. — Charakt. im Gegensatz zu Dasy- 

 labris Rad. u. Ephuta Say: Head very large, twice as wide as the thorax 

 beneath armed with 4 teeth, two small at base of gula, two much greater on 

 each check etc.). Ashmead, 1. c. p. 57, 60. 



Micromuülla n. g. (Type: P. nanus Ashm. — Charakt. ?: Untersch. v, Pseudo- 

 methoca Ashm.: Head transverse, the temples very oblique; ocelli large; 

 1. Joint of flag. cylindrical, longer than wide, but still shorter than the 2nd, 

 2 nd submarg. cell triangulär; submedian cell much larger than the median) 

 Asbmead, 1. c. p. 59. 



Nomiaephagus n. g. (cf. das sub Bothriomutilla Gesagte. — Type: S. sanbornii 

 Blake. — Charakt. ^•. Head subquadr.; mand. toward apex broadened a. 

 tridentate, outer tooth the longest, acute; mesonotal furrow wanting; first 

 Joint of flagellum scarcely longer than thick, much shorter than the second) 

 Ashmead, 1. c. p. 56 ^, 59 $. 



Odontomutilla n. g. (Type: 0. abbottii Ashm. nicht beschr. — Im Gegensatz zu 

 Mutilla und Timulla sind beim ^•. Lateral marg. of metathor. truncature den- 

 tate or denticulated ; anterior tarsi with a short tarsal comb; mandibles simple 

 without a tooth within; max. palpi long, 6-jointed, lab. 4-jointed, joints 

 2—4 compressed, the second wider than long; first Joint of flagellum ob- 

 conical, not longer than wide at apex. — $: mesonot. without distinct 

 furrows; scutell. large, flat, bind angles produced ints a tooth which curves 

 inwardly. — Africa). Ashmead, 1. c. p. 55, 58. 



Pyrrhomutilla n. g. (cf. das sub Bothriomutilla Gesagte. — Type; S. antophorae 

 Ashm. — Charakt. $: Head transv., seen from above obtrapezoidal, ocelli 

 large; mand. beneath with a sinus or an emargination, acuminate and with 

 a tooth within before apex, mesonotal furrows distinct; first Joint of fla- 

 gellum twice as long as thick and as long as the second). Ashmead, 1. c. 

 p. 56 ^, 59 $. 



rmwZZa u. g. (Type : M. dubitata Smith. — Von Mutilla versch.: ,^: Lateral 

 marg. of thorax usually slightly curved inwardly medially, not exactly 

 parallel, head not or scarcely wider than thorax, mandibles not tridentate 

 at apex, outer tooth not the longer. — $: Mand. at apex bidentate, first 

 Joint of flagell. not longer than the second). Ashmead, 1. c. p. 55, 58. 



Trogaspidia n. g. (Type: M. medon Sm. — Im Gegens. zum subconv. norm, 

 scutellum d. Mutilla L., Timulla Ashm. u. Ronisia Costa ist hier das 

 scutellum „conically or triangularly elevated." Ferner: „mesonot. with distinct 

 furrows; mandibles bidentate, hypopygiam margined at sides, emarginate at 

 apex." — Africa). Ashmead, 1. c. p. 58. 



