MUTILLID^. 189 



SCOLIA, Fabr. 



(Dlelis, Sauss.) 



1. Scolia albofimbriata. 



Female. Length 9^ lines. — Black, with fulvo-hy aline wings. Front 

 of the head, as high as the emargination of the eyes, closely punc- 

 tured, above with a few scattered punctures, the vertex being im- 

 puuctate. Thorax strongly punctured, the disk, and also the scu- 

 tellum, sparingly so ; the wings with violet iridescence ; the 

 pubescence black, but with a thin fringe of white hairs on the legs 

 beneath. Abdomen with a very obscure violet or blue tinge ; the 

 base punctured ; the second and third segments with a few very 

 fine distant punctures, the following segments with strong punc- 

 tures at their apical margins ; the terminal segment rugose ; a thin 

 short white fringe on the apical margins of the first, second, and 

 third segments. 



■^&^ 



Male. Of the same colour as the female, but the first segment of 

 the abdomen is much narrower than the second, with a short 

 petiole and clavate. 



Ilab. Costa Rica, Cache. 



MUTILLID^, Leach. 



MUTILLA. 



Mutilla, Limi. Si/st. Nat. i. 966. 

 Tiphia, pt. Mossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 68. 



African Species. 



Div. I. With the thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 1-12.) 



1. Mutilla obtusa. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Black ; the thorax ferruginous above ; 

 the abdomen with a spot of pale yellowish-white pubescence on 

 the basal segment, two on the second segment, and the third covered 

 with similar pubescence. Head nearly as wide as the thorax, 

 rugose, with the antennae obscurely ferruginous ; the mandibles 

 ferruginous, with their tips black. Thorax quadrate and longitu- 

 dinally rugose, abruptly truncate behind ; the tarsi ferruginous. 

 Abdomen short, subglobose ; the basal segment with a pubescent 



