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PLAT E «CCXIL 
MUEICEA EUROPA A. 
Eurorpean MotTILta. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Generally want wings. Body covered with down. Thorax blunt 
at the bafe. Sting pointed; concealed within the body. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Head black. Thorax red. Abdomen black ; margins of fome feg- 
ments whitith. 
Mouritita Evropzma: nigra thorace rufo, abdominis fegmentis 
margine albo.—Fab. Ent. Sy/t.t. 3. 368. 9. 
Mutilla Europea, nigra abdomine fefciis duabus albis, thorace an- 
tice rufo.—Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 2. 966. 4.—Fn. Sv. 1727. 
Sulz. Hift. Inf. tab. 27. fig. 23, 24. 
Apis Aptera: Udm. Diff: 98. tab. 17. 
The Mutillz feems lefs clearly defined than moft of the Linnzan 
genera. ‘That author defcribed only a fmall number of the fpecies, 
and was even doubtful whether feveral that were placed under that 
divifion of his fyftem did not more properly belong to fome otherg 
efpecially to the ichneumons, among which feveral apterous infects 
are included. 
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