L!2(> MUTILLTD.K. 



91. Mutilla maligna. 



Mule. Length 4^ lines. — Black ; head and thorax strongly and 

 closely punctured ; the abdomen Mhiuiug and very finely punctured. 

 The head as wide as the tliorax, transverse ; the face below the 

 antenna) with a little long white pubescence. The metathorax 

 with large shallow punctures, and having posteriorly a fine white 

 pubescence ; wings dark fuscous, snbhyaline towards the base ; the 

 anterior pair with three snbmarginal cells. Abdomen subpetiolate, 

 narrow, and with wliite pubescence at the apical margin of the 

 first segment; the other segments with a mixture of Idack and 

 Avhitc pubescence, the white being sparing above, but beneath the 

 abdomen the margins are fringed with white. 



Hab. Ega. 



92. Mutilla impetuosa. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax strongly punc- 

 tured, the former small and not so wide as the thorax. The 

 metathorax with the sides parallel, truncate behind, and covered 

 with white pubescence ; wings dark fuscous and subhyaline at the 

 base, the anterior pair with three snbmarginal cells, and a small 

 hyaline spot in the first and second submarginal ; the posterior 

 tibia) with white pubescence beneath. The first segment of the 

 abdomen subpetiolate, punctured, and with white pubescence at its 

 apex ; the second segment with white pubescence at its base 

 laterally ; the rest of the segments with the apical margins fringed 

 with black pubescence ; the second and third segments beneath 

 fringed with white pubescence. 



Hab. Para. 



93. Mutilla fugax. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black, punctured, with the face, meta- 

 thorax, basal segment of the abdomen, and the apical margin of 

 the second with silvery-white pubescence. The mesothorax and 

 scutellum strongly ininctured ; wings with three submarginal cells, 

 fusco-hyaline and palest at their base ; the tegulae large, with the 

 outer margin rufo-piceous ; the sides of the metathorax parallel, 

 the lateral angles acute, subdentate. The basal segment of the 

 abdomen forming a stout petiole. The eyes emarginate. 



Hab. Para. 



94. Mutilla proxima. 



Male. Length 4| lines. — Head, thorax, -legs, and basal segment of 

 the abdomen black, the rest of the abdomen ferruginous. The 

 head, prothorax, and metathorax with long silvery-white pubes- 



