32 HYMEN OPTEBA. 



169. MUTILLA BENGALENSIS. 



Mutilla Bengalensis, St. Fare/. Hym. iii. 637. 63 ? . 

 Hob. Bengal. 



170. MUTILLA BLANDA. B.M. 



Female. Length 3-3 lines. Head and abdomen black, tho- 

 rax red ; cheeks, mouth and scape mfo-piceous ; the head thinly 

 clothed with short bright silvery hairs ; thorax oblong, rugose, 

 legs more or less rufo-piceous, the tarsi palest ; the calcaria white ; 

 the legs have a thin, long, glittering silvery pubescence. Ab- 

 domen clothed with short black pubescence; the second segment 

 has an ovate spot of short silvery pubescence at its basal margin, 

 in the centre, and another at its apical margin ; the second seg- 

 ment clothed with silvery pubescence ; the apical segment fer- 

 ruginous above, striated obliquely on each side from the middle ; 

 the entire abdomen thinly sprinkled with long, glittering, silvery 

 hairs. 

 Rab. India. 



171. MUTILLA DIVERSA. 



Female. Length 4i lines. Head and thorax red, the former 

 rounded at the sides and narrowed anteriorly; antennae and man- 

 dibles red; the legs red, and having a thin pale glittering pubes- 

 cence ; the head, and the thorax above thinly covered with erect 

 black hairs. Abdomen black; the basal segment having a patch, 

 and the second and third segments an ovate spot on each side on 

 their apical margins, of pale golden pubescence; beneath ob- 

 scure red. 

 Hab. India. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



This species resembles the M. erythrocephala, but the head is 

 of a different form, being rounded, not sub quadrate as in that spe- 

 cies, and instead of bands it has only spots on the margins of 

 the abdominal segments. 



172. MUTILLA DIVES. 



Female. Length 2-4 lines. Black, the vertex sometimes ob- 

 scurely ferruginous; the thorax above and the metathorax ferru- 

 ginous ; the legs dark rufo-piceous, the tarsi palest ; the pubes- 

 cence on the legs pale and glittering ; the calcaria white. Ab- 

 domen : the second segment has two elongate-ovate spots of rich 

 golden pubescence, placed laterally ; the third segment has two 

 quadrate bright silver spots; the fifth segment has a little silvery 

 pubescence in the middle ; beneath rufo-piceous. 

 Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



