HYMENOPTERA. 33 



173. MUTILLA GLABRATA. 



Mutilla glabrata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 3/2. 25 ? ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 438. 45. 



Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 65. 64. 



Hob. India. 



174. MUTILLA INDICA. 



Mutilla Indica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 966. 3 ? . 

 Hab. India. 



175. MUTILLA INDOSTANA. 



Male. Length 8* lines. Head, thorax, legs and basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen black ; wings dark fuscous ; abdomen, ex- 

 cept the base, red; head small, eyes emarginate; the metathorax 

 narrowed at the base, obliquely truncate at the apex, covered 

 with large shallow punctures; the apical margins of the segments 

 of the abdomen fringed with ferruginous pubescence ; the ex- 

 treme apex fuscous. 



Hab. Madras. 



176. MUTILLA MIRANDA. 



Male. Length 6 lines. Head ferruginous, narrower than the 

 thorax, eyes emarginate, antennae black. Thorax : the prothorax 

 and mesothorax ferruginous; the metathorax and thorax beneath 

 as well as the legs black, the latter clothed with pale glittering 

 pubescence; the metathorax broad, produced at its lateral angles; 

 the wings brown, their base hyaline. Abdomen black, the second 

 segment having on each side a large spot of white pubescence, 

 the third and fourth segments clothed with white pubescence. 



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



177- MUTILLA NIGRIPES. 



Mutilla nigripes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 372. 28 ? ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 439.51. 



Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 66, 67. 



Hab. India. 



178. MUTILLA NOBILIS. B.M. 



Male. Length 6^ lines. Head and thorax ferruginous, eyes 

 ovate, antennae ferruginous, the flagellum beyond the two or 

 three basal joints fuscous above ; wings fuscous, subhyaline at 



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