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221. MuTILLA vIDUA. B.M. 
Mutilla vidua, Klug, Nova Acta Ces. Curios. x. 313. 1497 
Gimeeresl. 
St. Farg. Hym. iii. 636. 61. 
Hab. Brazil (Para). 
222, MUTILLA ATRIPES. B.M. 
Female. Length 6-8 lines.—Black, the head and thorax ru- 
gose, the latter armed on each side with three obtuse tubercles; 
the pubescence on the legs deep black. Abdomen: the second 
segment having four ovate reddish-yellow macule, the basal pair 
smallest ; a narrow line of bright silvery pubescence runs down 
the centre of the three apical segments; beneath, the margins 
of the segments thinly fringed with silvery hairs. 
Hab. Brazil (Santarem). 
This species closely resembles M. quadrinotata; the spots on 
the abdomen are however smaller, the thorax and legs are entirely 
black, and the abdomen has only a very narrow line of silvery 
pubescence ; it is apparently a distinct species. 
223. MuTILLA CHRYSOCEPHALA. B.M. 
Female. Length 3-4} lines.—Purple, closely punctured; the 
face and vertex of the head densely clothed with short golden 
pubescence ; the antenne, mandibles and legs red; the thorax 
oblong-ovate, having a central longitudinal stripe of short silvery 
pubescence, usually more or less obliterated; the sides have also 
more or less of a bright silvery pile. Abdomen: the apical margin 
of the basal segment silvery; two elongate spots at the base of the 
second segment, two quadrate spots on its apical margin, and a 
series of similar spots on the four apical segments, of bright silvery 
pubescence, the abdomen beneath silvery. 
Hab. Brazil (Santarem). (H. W. Bates.) 
224. MuTILLA OCULIFERA. B.M. 
Male. Length 4 lines.—Head and thorax black, coarsely 
punctured and clothed with long glittermg hoary pubescence ; 
eyes ovate, head narrower than the thorax, the metathorax 
rounded ; wings subhyaline, slightly fuscous towards their apical 
margins; legs covered with long loose hoary pubescence. Ab- 
domen petiolate, the petiole black, the apical margin of the basal 
segment and rest of the abdomen ferruginous, the three apical 
