HYMENOPTERA. 63 



310. MUTILLA VESTITA. B.M. 



Mutilla vestita, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 634. 58 <? . 

 Hob. Mexico. 



311. MUTILLA VERTICALIS. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. Black, the head broader than the 

 thorax ; the vertex red, and clothed with ferruginous pubescence. 

 Thorax narrowed posteriorly, the sides slightly contracted a little 

 beyond the middle, the lateral margins crenulated ; the meso- 

 thorax has a broad red stripe on each side ; the legs and the 

 thorax beneath thinly covered with pale glittering pubescence ; 

 the intermediate and posterior tibiae armed exteriorly with a row 

 of sharp spines. Abdomen : the second segment has two small 

 ovate spots at its basal margin, and beyond them two large ovate 

 ones almost touching in the centre of the segment ; the four 

 apical segments fringed with long pale yellow glittering pubes- 

 cence. 



Hab. Mexico. 



312. MUTILLA VERSICOLOR. B.M. 



Mutilla versicolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 371. 20; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 434. 30. 



Oliv. Ency. Meth. viii. 63. 46. 



Hab, America ; St. John's Bluff, East Florida. (E. Doubleday.) 



313. MUTILLA VIGILANS. 



Mutilla vigilans, Say, Bost. Journ. i. 296. 3. 

 Hab. Pennsylvania. 



Genus 2. APTEROGYNA. 



Scolia, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 237 (1793). 

 Apterogyna, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. (1809). 



1. APTEROGYXA GLOBULARIA. B.M. 



Scolia globularis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 237- 37, and Cab. Mus. 



Dom. Banks. 



Dahlm. Analec. Entom. p. 100. 

 Apterogyna Ehrenbergii, JVestw. Griff. Anim. Kingd. xv. 515. 



t. 76. f. 5 <J , fide type in Brit. Mus. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



