36 HYMENOPTERA. 
ginal fringe, a central spot uniting with the fringe, and the third 
segment covered laterally with pale yellow pubescence. 
Hab. India. 
184. MutTILLA RUFIVENTRIS. 
Female. Length 2-3 lines.—Head, thorax and legs ferrugi- 
nous; head subovate, rather wider than the thorax, sparingly 
and finely punctured; antennz ferrugmous. Thorax oblong, 
longitudinally rugose; legs rufo-testaceous, varying in depth of 
colour and having a sparing glittermg white pubescence. Abdo- 
men: the basal segment has an ovate spot in the middle of its 
apical margin, and in the middle of the apical margins of the 
second and third segments is a half-cireular spot of silvery-white 
pubescence ; the entire abdomen thinly sprinkled with long white 
hairs ; the extreme apex of the abdomen, as well as beneath, fer- 
ruginous. 
Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
185. MuTILLA RUFOGASTRA. B.M. 
Mutilla rufogastra, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 629. 513. 
Hab. India (Nepaul) ; China. 
This species closely resembles M. fuscipennis, of which it may 
be a variety, but it differs in having the wings of a lighter colour, 
and hyaline at their base ; its metathorax 1s narrowed posteriorly, 
whilst in fuscipennis it is widened. 
186. MuTrILLA RUGOSA. 
Mutilla rugosa, Oliv. Ency. Méth. viii. 61. 359. 
Hab. India. 
187. MuTILLA SEMIAURATA. 
Female. Length 5 lines—Black, the head, mesothorax an- 
teriorly, metathorax and legs clothed with silvery-white pubes- 
cence; the abdomen densely clothed with bright pale golden 
pubescence, except the apical segment, which is black and has a 
central silvery-white pubescent spot; beneath, the margins of 
the segments are frmged with silvery hairs, the second segment 
coarsely punctured and having a central longitudinal carina. 
Male.—Clothed as in the other sex, the eyes ovate, wings 
dark fuscous, palest towards their base. 
Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
