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which is a small round tubercle. Abdomen black, clothed with 
black pubescence; the basal segment has a small spot of bright 
golden pubescence, a broad fascia of the same colour occu- 
pies its apical margin and also the basal margin of the second 
segment; the band is emarginate on each side, forming an 
angle in the centre; the third and fourth segments clothed with 
bright golden pubescence, having a narrow longitudinal black 
line in the centre. 
Hab. India (Madras). 
Var. 8. This species varies in having the anterior band and 
also the basal spot obsolete,—not caused apparently by being 
rubbed off. 
Var. y. The antenne ferruginous, the thorax rufo-fuscous, 
the anterior band and spot obsolete. 
182. MuT1LLA REPRESENTANS. B.M. 
Female. Length 2}—43 lines.—Black, the extreme base and 
apex of the scape, and the mandibles in the middle ferruginous ; 
the flagellum obscurely red beneath. Thorax red, obleng and 
longitudinally rugose; the legs have a cinereous pubescence, 
the spines which arm the intermediate and posterior tibize ex- 
ternally are ferruginous; the spines and also the pubescence at 
the apex of the joints of the tarsi fulvous; the calearia pale 
testaceous. Abdomen clothed with short black pubescence, 
the second segment having two large ovate snow-white spots, 
placed laterally; the third and fourth segments clothed with 
snow-white pubescence, having a black longitudinal line down 
the centre; the lateral margins of the apical segments fringed 
with white pubescence, as are also the margins of the segments 
beneath. 
Hab. India. 
This species answers to the description of the M. Halensis of 
Fabricius, but can scarcely be identical, that species being from 
Saxony. 
183. MuTILLA RETICULATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 43 lines.—Black, the head as wide as the 
thorax, subquadrate, the posterior angles rounded. Thorax ob- 
scurely ferruginous above, covered with large shallow octagonal 
fossulets, forming a regular octagonal reticulation. Abdomen: 
the apical margin of the basal segment fringed with bright yel- 
lowish-white pubescence, the second segment has a narrow mar- 
