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quadrate, longitudinally rugose, the legs thinly sprinkled with 
pale glittering pubescence, the apical joints of the tarsi rufo- 
testaceous. ‘The second segment of the abdomen has on each 
side a large ovate macula of golden pile, the third and fourth 
segments having a broad band of golden pile, the entire insect 
thinly sprinkled over with long pale glittering hairs. 
Hab. Brazil. 
260. MuTILLA BIFURCA. 
Mutilla bifurea, Klug, Nova Acta Ces. Nat. Curios. x. 313.139. 
ae flO: 
Hab. Brazil (Cameta and Bahia). 
261. MuTiILLA BUCEPHALA. 
Mutilla bucephala, Perty, Del. An. Art. p. 137. t. 28. f. 8. 
Hab. Brazil. 
262. MuTILLA BUCEPHALUS. 
Female. Length 53 lines.—Black, head and thorax strongly 
punctured; the former much wider than the latter, the cheeks 
not spined. Thorax narrowed posteriorly, unarmed at the sides, 
and having two ovate spots of silvery pubescence on the disk ; 
the sides of the metathorax covered with short silvery pubescence. 
Abdomen: the basal segment having an acute ridge a little before 
the apical margin, the ridge denticulate ; the second segment 
having two large round naked maculee of a pale testaceous colour. 
Hab. Brazil. (Coll. F. Smith.) 
263. MuTriILLA CHRYSODORA. 
Mutilla chrysodora, Perty, Del. An. Art. p. 137. t. 27. f. 7. 
Hab. Brazil. 
264. MuTILLA DECORATA. 
Mutilla ornata, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 622.419 (nec Klug). 
Hab. Brazil. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
965. MuTiILLA FURVA. 
Female. Length 3 lines.—Head black, antennee and man- 
dibles rufo-testaceous, the flagellum above slightly fuscous, the 
mandibles black at their tips; thorax and legs rufo-testaceous, 
the latter palest ; the thorax is fiddle-shaped, the lateral margms 
being denticulated. Abdomen: the basal segment, the basal mar- 
