24 HYMENOPTERA. 
139. MurTiuua IGNITA. B.M. 
Female. Length 4 lines.—Head brassy-green, the mandibles 
ferruginous, their tips black. Thorax oblong-ovate, slightly 
narrowed behind ; roughly punctured above and of a blue-green ; 
legs coppery, and having a scattered hoary pubescence. Ab- 
domen coppery, having a purple tinge; very glossy, finely punc- 
tured ; the first and second segments have a fringe of white 
pubescence on their apical margins; the three following seg- 
ments have a few white hairs in the centre; the three apical 
segments have a long thin fuscous pubescence. 
Hab. New Holland. 
140. MuTILLA NIGROANEA. B.M. 
Female. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax nigro-zneous, 
the former very closely punctured, the antenne and mandibles 
rufo-testaceous, the scape bright ferruginous at the base be- 
neath. The thorax above covered with large deep punctures ; 
slightly narrowed posteriorly, not armed with spines at the sides ; 
the legs bright red. Abdomen dark metallic green, shining and 
finely punctured, the apical margins of the segments thinly 
fringed with pale hairs. 
Hab. New Holland. 
141. MuTILLA ROBUSTA. 
Male. Length 6 lines. — Black, the head densely covered 
with confluent punctures and having a thinly scattered black 
pubescence, the eyes shghtly emarginate. Thorax much broader 
than the head, ferruginous, closely and coarsely punctured, the 
sutures of the prothorax, scutellum and metathorax deeply 
impressed ; the wings dark fuscous, palest at their base, the 
nervures ferruginous; the legs have a thin pale yellow pubes- 
cence. Abdomen shining and rather finely punctured, the apical 
margins of the three basal segments have a broad fascia of pale 
golden pubescence ; the apical segment rugose and armed with 
two sharp spines ; the entire abdomen beneath, as well as the 
breast, black. 
Hab. New Holland. (Coll. F. Smith.) 
142. MuTILLA RUFICORNIS. 
Mutilla ruficornis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 369; Syst. Piez. p. 431. 
Oliv. Ency. Méth. viii. 59. 25. 
Westw. Arc. Ent. ui. 18. 5. 
Hab. New Holland. 
