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thinly covered with pale yellow pubescence. Thorax: the legs 
and thorax beneath black, the base of the metathorax having 
more or less of a fuscous stain, the legs and sides of the thorax 
thinly clothed with pale yellow pubescence; the disk of the tho- 
rax thinly sprinkled with short fuscous hairs; wings dark fus- 
cous ; the tegule ferrugmous. Abdomen petiolate, the apical 
margins of the three basal segments fringed with pale golden 
pubescence. 
Hab. North China. 
196. MuTILLA VARIEGATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 6 lines.—Head, legs and abdomen black, 
the thorax red; head and thorax longitudinally rugose; the 
mouth, scape and legs have a thin long golden pubescence ; the 
thorax transverse in front, the sides angular, the metathorax 
truncate ; thinly sprinkled with black hairs on the disk, on the 
metathorax and beneath they are golden-yellow. Abdomen sub- 
petiolate, a fascia on the apical margins of the three basal seg- 
ments, and a rounded spot on the centre of the second segment, 
of short bright golden pubescence ; beneath strongly punctured, 
above longitudinally rugose. 
Hab. North China. 
197. MuTILua ocuLaTa. B.M. 
Mutilla oculata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 432.19; Ency. Méth. viii. 
60. 32. 
Hab. Hong Kong. 
198. MuriLua SINENSIS. B.M. 
Female. Length 63 lmes.—Head and abdomen black, the 
thorax ferruginous ; the flagellum beneath and tips of the man- 
dibles rufo-piceous ; the flagellum adorned with sericeous pile. 
Thorax longitudinally rugose, having on each side, a little before 
the middle, an obtuse tooth, in front and behind which the 
margins are slightly emarginate; the metathorax rounded ; the 
femora have a scattered, and the tibia and tarsi a dense golden 
pubescence. Abdomen: the second segment has at the base an 
angular spot of golden pubescence, and the third a broad band 
of the same colour; beneath, the segments are ciliated with 
golden hairs. 
Male.—Similarly coloured to the female, with exception of the 
metathorax which is black; the eyes emarginate, the head nar- 
rower than the thorax ; the tegulz of the wings very large, their 
posterior margins rounded; wings fusco-hyaline, their apical mar- 
