10 MUTILLA CALVA. 



Mutilla Earopeea, Oliv.Enc. Moth. viii. 57. 15. 



Rossi, Faun, Etrus. ii. 114. 939. 



Christ, Hym. 147. t. 1 1. f. 1 <J , 2 2 . 



Don. Brit. Ins. vi. 77. t. 212. 



Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. 308. 9 ; Syst. Picz. 430. 11. 



Latr. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. i. 7. 2 J 2 ; Hist. Nat. Ins. xiii. 

 263. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 76. 20 <$ . 



Shuck. Foss. llym. 29. 1. 



St. Farg. llym. iii. 597. 3. 



Baer, Bull. Mosc. xxi. 229. 2. 



Nylaitd. dp. Boreal. 8. 1. 

 Mutilla I'an/.eri. 57. Farg. llym. iii. 602. 11 $ . 



Female. Length 5-8 lines. — Head black, coarsely punctured, 

 and with a scattered black pubescence ; the mandibles rufescent 

 at their apex; the thorax ferruginous; the prothorax black; 

 the disk shining and strongly punctured ; the legs black, very 

 spinose and hairy. Abdomen black, shining and punctured; 

 a broad subintcrrupted band of glittering pale yellow hair on 

 the first, second and third segments, the two latter interrupted ; 

 between the bands thinly clothed with erect black pubescence. 



Male. Length 5-6 lines. — Chalybeous ; the sides of the thorax 

 obscure, as well as the truncation of the metathorax ; the rae- 

 sothorax, scutellum, post-scutellum and base of the metathorax 

 red ; the wings fuscous, darkest towards their apical margins ; 

 the basal segment of the abdomen with a band of glittering pale 

 pubescence like the female, the bands on the second and third 

 segments •subinterrupted. 



This species is widely but sparingly distributed ; it has been 

 found most abundantly in the sandy lanes of Kent ; it is fre- 

 quently taken about Darenth and Birch Woods ; at the latter 

 locality the male was taken as late as the 13th of September; it 

 is by no means a rare insect in Hampshire. 



2. Mutilla calva. 



Fazrnina. — Nigra ; vertice thoraceque rufis ; abdominis margine 

 cinereo. 



Mas. — Hirtus, niger ; abdominis segmentis margine ciliatis. 



Mutilla calva, Villers, Ent. iii. 343. 9. t. 8. f. 34 y . 



Fabr Ent. Syst. Supp. 282. 24 ; Syst. Piez. 438. 46. 



Latr. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. i. 10. 8 $ $ . 



Oliv. Encycl. Meth. viii. 64. 56. 



Coqueb. Ildus. Icon. Ins. dec. ii. t. 16. f. 10. 



