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107. Mutilla vulpina. 



Female. Length 6| lines. — Black and densely pubescent ; the head 

 with long, suberect, yellowish-white pubescence ; the thorax covered 

 with similar pubescence, and having an ovate tuft of black on the 

 disk. The abdomen with a large, semicircular, black pubescent 

 space at the base, then a broad band of yellowish white, followed 

 by one of black, the apex being whitish, except the apical segment, 

 which is black. 



Hah. Mexico, Oajaca. 



108. Mutilla sapiens. 



Male. Length 3| lines. — Black ; the head and thorax coarsely punc- 

 tured ; the abdomen shining and more finely punctured. The head 

 covered with white pubescence. The metathorax, the basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen, and the apical margin of the second segment 

 with a fascia of silvery- white pubescence, the basal segment form- 

 ing a short petiole ; wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical 

 margins, the nervures black ; the tegulse large, testaceous at their 

 tips. Anterior wings with three submarginal cells ; the eyes emar- 

 ginate. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba. 



109. Mutilla ordinaria. 



Male. Length 4|-7 lines. — Head, thorax, legs, and basal segment 

 of the abdomen black, the other segments ferruginous ; wings 

 fuscous and more or less hyaline at their base. The head and 

 thorax strongly punctured ; the eyes emarginate ; the face and the 

 metathorax with thin white pubescence, the latter with large shal- 

 low punctures ; a little silvery pile at the basal margin of the meta- 

 thorax and also behind the wings, the latter with three submarginal 

 cells. Abdomen with fine scattered punctures, and the segments 

 fringed with ferruginous pubescence. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba. 



110. Mutilla terminata. 



Male. Length 4| lines. — Head, thorax, legs, and the base and apex 

 of the abdomen black, the latter otherwise clothed with bright 

 scarlet pubescence. The eyes ovate ; the head, thorax anteriorly, 

 and the scutellum with pale fulvous pubescence ; wings with two 

 submarginal cells, dark fuscous at their apex, paler towards their 

 base. The abdomen more or less ferruginous beneath. 



ITah Mexico, Oajaca. 



