182 Mr. F. Smith's descriptions 
HETEROGYNA. 
MUTILLIDiE. 
Genus MuTiLLA, Linn. 
1. Mutilla pustulata. 
]\Iale. Length 5 Knes. Black, with the two basal seg- 
ments of the abdomen red. The head and thorax coarsely 
punctured, and haA^ng a thin, erect, black pubescence ; 
that on the legs is cinereous; on each side of the face, 
below the insertion of the antenna}, is a line of snow-Avhite 
pubescence ; the wings fusco-hjaline, darkest towards their 
a]3ex ; the metathorax covered with large deep punctures. 
The apical margins of the third and foiu-th segments 
fringed with white pubescence. 
Hah. — Hiogo. 
2. Mutilla insicUator. 
Female. Length 3^ lines. Head and abdomen black, 
thorax red. Head shagreened ; thorax oblong and very 
strongly and closely punctured, the margin crenulated; 
the legs covered with fine, short, cinereous pubescence ; 
the spines at the apex of the tibire white, and the apical 
joints of the tarsi obscure fusco-ferruginous. The abdomen 
covered Avith fine short black pubescence ; a transverse 
spot of silvery-white pubescence on each side of the second 
segment placed rather forwards before the middle, a broad 
band of the same on the third segment, the fifth segment 
has a similar coloured fringe on its apical margin. 
Hab. — Hiogo. 
3. 3Iutilla ardescens. 
Female. Length 3 lines. Head and abdomen black, 
thorax and legs red. Head shagreened ; tips of the man- 
dibles, and the antenna3, ferruginous; the latter fuscous 
above, towards the apex. Thorax oblong, the sides nearly 
parallel, crenidated, and rugose-punctate ; tips of the 
femora fuscous. Abdomen very closely and finely punc- 
tured. A small patch of pale golden pubescence in the 
mitldle of the basal segment, a band of the same on the 
a[)ical margin of the second segment, and the apical seg- 
ment covered Avith similar pubescence. 
Hab. — Nagasaki. 
4. Mutilla pringens. 
Female. Length 4 lines. Head and abdomen black, 
the thorax red. Head very closely punctured, the man- 
