62 HYMENOPTERA. 
305. MuTILLA PULCHRA. 
Female. Length 9 lines.—Black, head small, narrower than 
the thorax, and densely clothed with bright golden pubescence. 
Thorax deeply notched at the sides, and having a transverse 
curved fascia of golden pubescence a little beyond the middle ; 
the thorax beneath and the legs have a pale ochraceous glittering 
pubescence. Abdomen: the second segment has on each side at 
its base a large angular macula, and towards its apical margin on 
each side a transverse oblong subovate macula of a reddish-yel- 
low; the three apical segments clothed with golden pubescence, 
the fifth having un each side a mixture of black or fuscous hairs. 
Hab. Mexico. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
306. MuTILLA RUFA. B.M. 
Mutilla rufa, St. Farg. Hym. ui. 631. 543. 
Hab. Philadelphia. 
307. MuTILLA SCRUPEA. 
Mutilla scrupea, Say, Bost. Journ. i. 297.52. 
Hab. North America (Indiana). 
308. MuTiILLa SIMILLIMA. B.M. 
Female. Length 5 lines.—Ferruginous, closely covered with 
strong elongate punctures, those on the abdomen running into 
strie ; the eyes, tips of the mandibles and the flagellum black ; 
the legs fuscous ; the thorax rounded in front, narrowed poste- 
riorly, the sides crenulated, the lateral margins of the metathorax 
crenulated. Abdomen: the apical margins of the segments fus- 
cous, those of the first and second fringed with black pubescence, 
the four apical margins fringed with cinereous pubescence. 
Hab. Massachusetts. 
This species is very like the Mutilla ferrugata of Fabricius, 
but is easily distinguished by its coarse sculpture, and by having 
the base of the abdomen broad, whereas in M. ferrugata it is 
much narrowed at the base. 
309. MuTILLA VAGANS. 
Mutilla vagans, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 282.272; Syst. Piez. 
p- 439. 50. 
Oliv. Ency. Méth. viii. 66. 69. 
Hab. North America. 
