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thinly covered with pale yellow pubescence. Thorax : the legs 

 and thorax beneath black, the base of the metathorax having 

 more or less of a fuscous stain, the legs and sides of the thorax 

 thinly clothed with pale yellow pubescence ; the disk of the tho- 

 rax thinly sprinkled with short fuscous hairs ; wings dark fus- 

 cous ; the tegulse ferruginous. Abdomen petiolate, the apical 

 margins of the three basal segments fringed with pale golden 

 pubescence. 



Hob. North China. 



196. MUTILLA VARIEGATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Head, legs and abdomen black, 

 the thorax red ; head and thorax longitudinally rugose ; the 

 mouth, scape and legs have a thin long golden pubescence ; the 

 thorax transverse in front, the sides angular, the metathorax 

 truncate ; thinly sprinkled with black hairs on the disk, on the 

 metathorax and beneath they are golden-yellow. Abdomen sub- 

 petiolate, a fascia on the apical margins of the three basal seg- 

 ments, and a rounded spot on the centre of the second segment, 

 of short bright golden pubescence ; beneath strongly punctured, 

 above longitudinally rugose. 



Hab. North China. 



197. MUTILLA OCULATA. B.M. 

 Mutilla oculata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 432. 19 ; Ency. Meth. viii. 



60. 32. 

 Hab. Hong Kong. 



198. MUTILLA SINENSIS. B.M. 

 Female. Length 6i lines. Head and abdomen black, the 



thorax ferruginous ; the flagellum beneath and tips of the man- 

 dibles rufo-piceous ; the flagellum adorned with sericeous pile. 

 Thorax longitudinally rugose, having on each side, a little before 

 the middle, an obtuse tooth, in front and behind which the 

 margins are slightly emarginate ; the metathprax rounded ; the 

 femora have a scattered, and the tibiae and tarsi a dense golden 

 pubescence. Abdomen : the second segment has at the base an 

 angular spot of golden pubescence, and the third a broad band 

 of the same colour; beneath, the segments are ciliated with 

 golden hairs. 



Male. Similarly coloured to the female, with exception of the 

 metathorax which is black ; the eyes emarginate, the head nar- 

 rower than the thorax ; the tegulae of the wings very large, their 

 posterior margins rounded; win gsfusco-hyaline, their apical mar- 



