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PLATE CCXIL 



MUTILLA EUROP1A. 



European Mutilla. 



Hymenoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Generally want wings. Body covered with down. Thorax blunt 

 at the bale. Sting pointed ; concealed within the body. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Head black. Thorax red. Abdomen black ; margins of fome feg- 

 ments whitiih. 



Mutilla Europ^ea : nigra thorace rufo, abdominis fegmentis 

 margine albo. — Fab. Ent. Syji.t. 3. 368. 9. 



Mutilla Europasa, nigra abdomine fefciis duabus albis, thorace an- 

 tice rufo. — Linn. Syji. ISat. 2. 966. 4. — Fn. Sv. 1727. 

 Sulz. Hi/?. Inf. tab. 27. jig. 23, 24. 



Apis Aptera: Udm. Dijf. 98. tab. 17. 



The Mutillae feems lefs clearly denned than mod of the Linnasan 

 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 feme other t 

 efpecially to the ichneumons, among which feveral apterous infects 

 are included. 



