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166. MuTILLA ANTENNATA. B.M. 
Male. Length 4 lines—Head and abdomen black, thorax 
red; eyes emarginate; the antennz fusco-ferruginous, longer 
than the head and thorax; mandibles in the middle, and palpi 
ferruginous. Thorax: the legs black; the mesothorax distantly 
but coarsely punctured, the metathorax covered with large shallow 
punctures, having a smooth channel down the centre, which has 
on each side an elevated carina; the tegulz large, rounded pos- 
teriorly ; wings subhyaline, slightly fuscous towards their apical 
margins. Abdomen covered with large distant punctures, the 
apical margins fringed with long pale glittering pubescence; the 
entire insect is thinly sprinkled with pale glittering hairs. 
Hab. India. 
167. MuTILLA ARGENTIPES. 
Female. Length 53 lines.—Black, the vertex having an ovate 
spot of silvery-white pubescence, the cheeks clothed with the 
same. Thorax: the disk obscurely ferruginous, clothed with 
reddish-yellow pubescence, having a golden gloss; the sides 
armed with a stout tooth, a little before the middle; the legs 
have a silvery pubescence. Abdomen: the basal segment has a 
spot of silvery pubescence, and the basal margin of the second 
segment has also a little of the same, beyond which it is clothed 
with reddish-yellow; its apical margin clothed with black, and 
having three ovate spots of silvery-white ; the three following 
segments have a central spot of the same colour; beneath ferru- 
ginous, the margins of the segments fringed with silvery hairs. 
Hab. India. 
168. MuTILLA AURIFRONS. 
Female. Length 5 lmes.—Brownish-red, the sides of the tho- 
rax and abdomen having some dusky stains; the face and vertex 
densely clothed with short bright golden pubescence ; the an- 
tenn ferruginous, having the flagellum fuscous above, except 
the two or three basal jomts. Thorax elongate-ovate, slightly 
narrowed behind; legs bright ferruginous and having a pale glit- 
tering pubescence. Abdomen: the second segment having two 
minute spots of golden pubescence, its apical margin having a 
fascia of yellowish-white pubescence and being notched in the 
middle ; the following segments have a thick marginal fringe of 
bright reddish-yellow pubescence. 
Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
