408 Mr. F. Smith's descriptions 



of tlie second segment, and tlie extreme apex, pale golden- 

 yellow ; the rest of the pubescence on the abdomen above 

 black ; beneath, the margins of the segments are thinly 

 fringed with pale hairs. The thorax oblong, densely 

 covered with strong confluent punctures, slightly narrowed 

 in middle ; the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the calcaria at the 

 apex of the tibire pale testaceous. 



Hab. — Hiogo. 



Var. difters in being smaller, in being more finely 

 punctured, and in having the legs red, Avith tips of the 

 joints blackish. May possibly be a distinct species. 



2. Mutilla insidiator. 



Female. — Length 3 lines. Black, the thorax red; a 

 transverse glittering silvery-Avhite pubescent spot on each 

 side of the second segment, before the middle, and the 

 apical segment covered Avith similar pubescence. The 

 head strongly and closely punctured. Thorax oblong, 

 the sides nearly parallel, slightly narrowed about the 

 middle, and covered with large deep confluent punctures, 

 the thinly-scattered pubescence on its disk black ; legs 

 black, and with thin pale glittering pubescence ; the 

 calcaria at the apex of the tibiae Avhite ; the tarsi obscm-ely 

 rufo-testaceous. Abdomen with rather distant punctures, 

 and covered Avith short black pubescence ; beneath, the 

 pubescence is pale and glittering. 



Hab. — Hiogo. 



3. Mutilla petulans. 



Male. — Ijength 5 lines. Head and thorax black, basal 

 half of the abdomen red. Head and thorax strongly and 

 closely punctured ; the metathorax with large coarse 

 punctures ; the tegulaB and a small space on the scutellum 

 smooth and shining ; the thinly-scattered j)nbescence on 

 the thorax and head silvery-Avhite, except a little on the 

 vertex of the latter, which is black; Avings slightly fuscous, 

 darkest towards their apex. Abdomen : the first and 

 second segment ferruginous, the others black ; the first 

 segment strongly punctured, the second more finely and 

 more distantly so ; the other segments finely punctured ; 

 the apical margins of the third and fourth segments with 

 naiTOAv silvery-white fascite ; the pubescence on the other 

 segments black. 



Hab. — Hioo-o. 



