40 HYMENOPTERA. 



gins having a dark cloud, also a fuscous stain at the apex of the 



externo-medial cell; the metathorax coarsely punctured, very 



broad, and produced on each side, forming an obtuse tooth ; the 



abdomen has a fascia of golden pubescence on the third segment, 



and a transverse spot in the middle of the fourth of the same 



colour. 



Hab. North China. (R. Fortune, Esq.). 



199. MUTILLA SPECIOSA. B.M. 



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

 much narrower than the latter, both coarsely rugose ; the an- 

 tennae ferruginous, the flagellum more or less fuscous above. 

 Thorax subquadrate; legs rufo-piceous and having a sparing 

 bright yellow pubescence ; the tarsi sometimes ferruginous. 

 Abdomen black, elongate and longitudinally rugose ; the second 

 segment having three ovate spots of golden pubescence placed 

 transversely at the base of the segment ; the third and fourth 

 segments clothed with golden pubescence, usually more or less 

 interrupted. 



Hab. Hong Kong. 



200. MUTILLA PHILIPPINENSIS. 



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

 thorax ferruginous ; head about the width of the thorax, the 

 latter oblong and longitudinally rugose, the sides compressed, 

 the legs having a thinly scattered pale glittering pubescence. 

 Abdomen : the second segment having on each side towards its 

 base an ovate spot of pale yellow pubescence ; the third segment 

 is covered with the same, and the fifth has a fringe of the same 

 colour ; the margins of the segments ciliated with pale glittering 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



201. MUTILLA AMERICANA. B.M. 

 Mutilla Americana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 966. 2. 



Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 396. 3; Ent. Syst. ii. 367. 5; Syst. 



Piez. p. 430. 6. 

 Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 56. 8. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 623. 43. 



Mutilla obsoleta, King, Nova Act a Cas. Curios, x. 319. 22 ? . 

 t. 23. f. 7- 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



