46 HYMENOPTERA. 



segments fusco-ferruginous ; a dark stain at the extreme lateral 



margins of the second segment. 



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



This species closely resembles the M. rufiventris of Klug, but 

 in that species the eyes are emarginate. 



225. MUTILLA L^ETA. B.M. 



Female. Length 2 lines. Head black, wider than the tho- 

 rax ; the mandibles, scape, and three basal joints of the flagellum, 

 also the underside of the three or four following joints, reddish- 

 yellow; tips of the mandibles black; the head is rounded behind. 

 Thorax elongate-ovate, of a reddish-yellow, the legs of the same 

 colour ; a horse-shoe-shaped black mark on the mesothorax pos- 

 teriorly. Abdomen reddish-yellow, the first joint small, subpe- 

 tiolate, and having a black spot above ; the second segment has a 

 broad black band above, its posterior margin as well as the entire 

 abdomen beneath has a short sericeous pile ; the apical segments 

 above have a golden pile. 

 Hab. Brazil (Santarem). (H. W. Bates.) 



226. MUTILLA FESTIVA. B.M. 



Female. Length 3J lines. Black, the head clothed with short 

 pale golden pubescence, the antennae and mandibles rufo-piceous, 

 the latter black at their tips. Thorax short, rounded anteriorly, 

 narrowed posteriorly, compressed at the sides which have a stripe 

 of pale golden pubescence, the metathorax coarsely rugose ; the 

 legs dark rufo-piceous, and having a thin long pale glittering 

 pubescence, the tarsi rufo-testaceous. Abdomen : a round spot 

 of pale golden pubescence at the apex of the basal segment, in 

 the middle ; another elongate spot extends from the middle of 

 the second to the apex of the third segment; the extreme lateral 

 margins of all the segments fringed with pale golden pubescence; 

 the segments beneath fringed with hairs of a similar colour. 

 Hab. Brazil (Santarem). 



227. MUTILLA GRATIOSA. B.M. 

 Female. Length 4 lines. Black, clothed with black pubes- 

 cence; the head has an elongate patch of silvery pubescence, 

 which extends from the insertion of the antennae to the posterior 

 margin of the vertex, towards which it is narrowed to a point. 

 Thorax elongate-ovate ; the sides of the metathorax have an elon- 

 gate silvery stripe. Abdomen : the sides of the basal segment 

 silvery; a round silvery spot on each side of the second segment 

 towards its basal margin, in a line with which is a larger quadrate 



