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margin, in the middle, which unites with a broad fascia on the third 

 segment ; dark rufo-piceous beneath, the margins of the segments 

 fringed with pale yellowish pubescence. 



Hah. Africa. 



17. Mutilla irritabilis. 



Female.^ Length Gi lines. — Black, with the head and thorax above 

 ferruginous, and both coarsely rugose ; the scape and mandibles at 

 their base ferruginous. The thorax sculptured above with irregular 

 longitudinal grooves, oblong-quadrate, and with an obtuse tubercle 

 on each side a little before the middle ; truncate behind ; the legs 

 with golden-yellow pubescence. The abdomen with a broad golden- 

 yellow fascia at the base of the second segment, its hinder margin 

 bisinuate; the third and fourth segments with golden pubes- 

 cence, interrupted in the middle ; the basal segment truncate ; 

 beneath, all the segments fringed with golden pubescence. 



Hab. Egypt. 



Div. III. Head and thorax black. (Sp. 18-25.) 



18. Mutilla exaltata. 



'\Lalc. Length 7-8 lines. — Elack, with the first and second seg- 

 ments of the abdomen ferruginous. The head rugose-punctate ; 

 the eyes emarginate ; the vertex with thinly scattered black pu- 

 bescence, that on the face, below the antennaj, and also that on the 

 cheeks cinereous. Thorax coarsely punctured ; the pro thorax and 

 scutellum with fulvous pubescence ; the metathorax coarsely reti- 

 culate, the lateral margins crenulated ; wings dark brown, the 

 tegulae strongly punctured. The apical margin of the second abdo- 

 minal segment, and the third entirely, covered with pale fulvous 

 pubescence ; the two basal segments closely punctured ; the first 

 segment beneath with a sharp carina, which is produced into an 

 acute spine or tooth ; the second segment punctured, and the follow- 

 ing fringed with pale pubescence. 



Hah. Natal. 



19. Mutilla conspicua. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black ; the abdomen with a broad band in 

 the middle of bright coppery-red pubescence, an ovate spot of the same 

 at the base, and a quadrate one near the apex ; the basal segment, 

 which is small and subgloboso, with silvery-white pubescence. The 

 head small, much narrower than the thorax, and with an ovate 

 silvery-pubescent spot on the vertex. Thorax oblong-quadrate, 

 slightly narrowed posteriorly, coarsely rugose, and, in some exam- 

 ples, of a very obscure reddish hue above ; the legs with more or 



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