28 HYMENOPTERA. 
base and apex of the abdomen black ; the apical segment longi- 
tudinally strigose. 
Hab. Swan River. 
154. MuTILLA CORDATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 23-3 lines.—Black, head strongly punctured, 
antennze and mandibles red, the scape fuscous. Thorax heart- 
shaped, ferruginous, strongly but not very closely punctured ; 
the legs ferruginous, the femora sometimes fuscous; the thorax 
above having a few scattered long black hairs, those on the legs 
mixed with silvery ones. Abdomen shining, closely punctured, 
the apical margin of the basal segment pale testaceous; an 
oblong patch of pale glittermg pubescence in the centre of the 
third and two followmg segments, sometimes extending to the 
middle of the second segment ; the entire abdomen has a scat- 
tered black pubescence above; at the base and beneath it is 
pale; the apical segment above obliquely striated on each side. 
Var. The thorax black. 
Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 
155. MuTILLA MACULATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 23 lines.—Black, the head thinly sprinkled 
with short golden hairs; the flagellum and mandibles, the tibiz, 
coxze, tarsi and abdomen beneath ferruginous ; the thorax above 
obscurely ferruginous, thinly sprinkled with long erect black 
hairs. Abdomen: the apical margin of the basal segment and a 
large elongate-ovate macula on the second segment pale rufo- 
testaceous, the latter covered with short golden pubescence, 
towards the apex clothed with long black pubescence. 
Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 
This species appears to be closely allied to the M. aurata of 
Fabricius, if indeed it be not a variety of that species. 
156. MuTILLA METALLICA. BM. 
Female. Length 5 lines. —Head and thorax metallic green, 
the head closely and strongly punctured; the thorax above 
covered with large deep punctures; the pubescence on the 
cheeks, clypeus and scape cinereous, the antenne dark testa- 
reous; legs of a metallic purple and having a scattered cimereous 
pubescence. Abdomen metallic purple, coarsely punctured at 
the base, more finely so towards the apex, having a thin long 
black pubescence ; the first and second segments have a spot of 
silvery-white pubescence on their apical margins in the centre ; 
