42 MYHMOSA. 



Mutilla rafipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 372. 26 ? . 

 Lair. Art. Soc. Hist. Nat. i. !>. 6. 

 Oliv. Encycl. Mrlh. viii. 66. 68. 



Coquib. ///us: Icon. Ins. t. 16. f. 9. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 6)2. 23. 

 Wesm. Hi/ in. loss. Hili/. 7. 1. 

 Mutilla sellata, Pan:. Faun. Germ. 46. 19 ? . 



Female. Length 2-s3 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured ; antennae ferruginous, with six or seven of the apical 

 joints black; the mandibles ferruginous, their tips black. 

 Thorax and legs ferruginous, with long scattered pubescence. 

 Abdomen punctured, with a thin scattered erect pubescence; a 

 patch of silvery pubescence at the base of the second segment 

 in the middle, and a fascia of similar pubescence on its apical 

 margin; the third segment covered with silvery pubescence; 

 the apical segment rufo-piceous ; the general pubescence gri- 

 seous. 



Male. Length 2j-5 lines. — Black; strongly punctured; the 

 collar, mesothorax, scutellum and tegulae ferruginous ; the 

 wings fusco-hyaline, with a darker shade at their apical mar- 

 gins, the nervures testaceous ; the apical margins of the second 

 and two following segments ciliated with silvery hairs. 



Var. /3. Entirely black ; the abdomen ciliated as above. 



This species is abundant in some localities — on Plumstead 

 Common, at Charlton near Greenwich, and at Weybridge ; but 

 I found it most numerous in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, 

 where, in the middle of July 1851, both sexes were captured; 

 amongst these, a specimen of the male, 5 lines in length, oc- 

 curred, and also the very rare black variety. This species is 

 also plentiful beyond Southend, where many specimens were 

 captured running on the footpath at the top of the heights ; it 

 is also found on Deal sands, and on the slopes under the cliffs 

 towards St. Margaret's Bay. 



Genus 2. MYRMOSA. 



Mutilla, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 366 (1793). 

 Myrraosa, Lair. Hist. Nat. xiii. (1805). 



Head subglobose ; stemmata in a triangle on the vertex ; 

 eyes small, round, and lateral ; antennae subfiliform, inserted, in 

 the female, at each side of the base of the clypeus and approxi- 

 mate, in the male they are wider apart ; the clypeus triangular 



