44 HYMENOPTERA. 



rax, eyes ovate ; the face and cheeks thinly covered with griseous 

 pubescence. Thorax : the scutellum produced, armed on each 

 side with a stout tooth; the metathorax clothed with silvery 

 pubescence ; the wings hyaline, having a dark fuscous marginal 

 cloud, also a dark stain at the apex of the externo-medial cell. 

 Abdomen petiolate, the three basal segments thinly covered with 

 silvery pubescence ; the apical segments clothed with black pu- 

 bescence. 



Hob. Brazil (Para). (H. W. Bates.) 



217. MUTILLA QUADRIPUSTULATA. B.M. 



Mutilla quadripustulata, King, Nova Acta Cas. Curios, x. 316. 

 17?.t. 23. f. 2. 



Hob. Brazil (Para). 



218. MUTILLA SUCCINCTA. B.M. 



Female. Length 4-4i lines. Black, head as wide as the 

 thorax, finely shagreened. Thorax oblong- quadrate, ferruginous 

 above, longitudinally rugose, the metathorax rounded and cre- 

 nulated at the sides, covered with large shallow punctures ; the 

 legs have a thin scattered pale glittering pubescence. Abdomen : 

 the second segment having two round patches of golden pubes- 

 cence placed towards the apical margin, the four apical segments 

 covered with pale golden pubescence ; the margins of the seg- 

 ments beneath ciliated with pale glittering hairs. 



Hob. Brazil (Para). 



219. MUTILLA TRISTIS. B.M. 



Mutilla tristis, King, Nova Acta Cess. Curios, x. 318. 20 $ . 

 t. 23. f. 5. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



220. MUTILLA VAGA. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black, head finely shagreened, the 

 thorax longitudinally rugose, the sides slightly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, the metathorax rounded ; the legs have a thinly scattered 

 pale glittering pubescence, the calcaria white. Abdomen : the 

 second segment having two elongate-ovate yellow maculae which 

 are covered with golden pubescence, the four apical segments 

 fringed with silvery pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). (H.W.Bates.) (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



