54 HYMENOPTERA. 
gin of the second segment narrowly, and a broad slightly inter- 
rupted band near its apical margin, pale rufo-testaceous ; its 
apical margin narrowly testaceous; the four apical segments 
rufo-testaceous, their apical margins palest. 
Hab. Brazil. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
266. MuTILLA GIGANTEA. 
Mutilla gigantea, Perty, Del. An. Art. p. 138. t. 27. f. 9. 
Hab. Brazil. 
267. MuTILLA HERALDICA. 
Female. Length 5% lines.—Black, the head densely clothed 
with cream-coloured pubescence, a stripe of black behind the 
eyes; the basal jomts of the antennez have a white pubescence. 
The thorax and legs densely clothed with similar pubescence to 
the head, a triangular patch of black pubescence on the meso- 
thorax anteriorly, also a black line down the metathorax. Ab- 
domen black, the second segment having two large elongate spots 
uniting to a second lateral spot, which again unites with the 
colouring of the entire segment beneath, all being of a cream- 
coloured white ; the third segment in the middle has a quadrate 
patch, and the fourth and fifth have a transverse one, all oc- 
eupying the width of the segment. 
Hab. South America (Brazil ?). 
268. MuTILLA INAURATA. B.M. 
Male. Length 43-63 lines.— Black, the face below the antennze 
covered with pale golden pubescence, the tips of the mandibles 
ferruginous. Thorax clothed with black, and the metathorax 
with silvery pubescence ; the scutellum produced, and a prominent 
tubercle in the centre of the metathorax ; the tegulz very large, 
rounded behind ; the wings subhyaline, slightly clouded at their 
apical margins; the legs have a thin clothing of pale glittering 
pubescence. Abdomen petiolate, the petiole clothed with silvery 
pubescence, the second and three following segments covered 
with rich golden pubescence, the second segment more or Jess 
black at the base ; a central carima runs from the base of the 
fourth segment to the apex of the abdomen. 
Hab. Brazil. 
269. MuTILLA MELANOCEPHALA. 
Mutilla melanocephala, Perty, Del. An. Art. p. 137. t. 27. f. 6. 
Hab. Brazil. 
