MUTILLA EPHIPPIUM. 41 



Mutilla calva, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 30. 2. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 607. 19. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal. 11. 3. 



Baer, Bull. Mosc. xxi. 230. 4. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 18. 6. 

 Mutilla nigrita, Panz. Faun. Germ. 80. 22 . 



Fair. Syst. Piez. 437. 40. 



Oliv. Encycl. Meth. viii. 65. 59. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 599. 6. 



Female. Length 3-4 lines. Head black, pilose, with the vertex 

 and occiput fulvous ; antennae dark fulvous ; mandibles fulvous, 

 their tips black. Thorax fulvous, punctured, with a few scat- 

 tered black hairs ; legs rufous or rufo-fuscous. Abdomen 

 black, the base fulvous, and armed on each side beneath with 

 a fulvous tooth, which is bent obliquely downwards ; the mar- 

 gins of the second and following segments thinly ciliated with 

 white hairs. 



Male. Length 3 lines. Black ; the head deeply punctured and 

 pubescent; the mandibles piceous, more or less red in the 

 middle. Thorax punctured, shining, and covered with a dense 

 griseous pubescence; the metathorax rugose, with a smooth 

 space at its base of the form of an isosceles triangle, with the 

 sides a little rounded, and enclosed by an elevated ridge ; the 

 tegulae piceous; wings fuscous, their nervures rufo-piceous. 

 Abdomen with scattered punctures, shining, and covered with 

 long griseous pubescence ; the second and third segments have 

 a band of short grey pubescence on their apical margins. 



The claim of this insect to being indigenous is very doubtful; 

 it is said to have been taken at Shooter's Hill ; but, unless con- 

 firmed by future captures, its being a British species requires 

 confirmation. 



3. Mutilla ephippium. 



F&mina. Nigra ; antennis, thorace pedibusque rufis ; abdomine 



puncto fasciisque duabus approximatis albis. 

 Mas. Niger ; thoracis dorso rufo. 



Mutilla ephippium, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 370. 18 $ 

 Rossi, Faun. Etrus. Mant. i. t. 2. f. n $ . 

 Oliv. Encycl. Meth. viii 63. 45. 

 Curtis, Brit. Ent. ii. t. 77 <J ? . 

 Shuck. Foss. Hym. 31. 3. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 608. 22. 

 Nyland. Ap. Boreal. 13. 4. 

 Baer, Bull. Mosc. xxi. 229. 



