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band on the fourth segment is as in M. humbertiana; in 

 M. soror it is figured as straight at the base. M. insularis 

 Cam., may be known from it by the thorax being red ; by 

 the metapleurae not being coarsely punctured throughout, 

 only at the extreme apex, the band on the third segment 

 complete, not incised at the base. 



MUTILLA PERELEGANS, Sp. 1WV. 



This is the supposed variety of M. pulchrina figured 

 by me (Manchester Memoirs, V '., 1892, pi. 1, f. 6), but 

 which I now regard as quite distinct ; and, thanks to Col. 

 Yerbury, I am enabled to describe the male, as well as 

 the female, in detail. 



2 . Head very slightly narrower than the thorax ; 

 stoutly keeled on the sides behind, ferruginous, coarsely 

 rugosely punctured ; covered sparsely with longish black 

 hairs ; almost transverse behind, where it is developed 

 the length of the eyes. Mandibles black. Scape of the 

 antennae deep black, shining, glabrous; the flagellum thick; 

 the third joint twice the length of the fourth; brownish 

 beneath. Thorax a little narrowed from the middle to 

 the apex ; above coarsely rugosely punctured, the punc- 

 tures elongated ; sparsely covered with long black hairs, 

 but very thickly on the pronotum, while the median 

 segment is thickly covered with long pale golden hairs, 

 and has a somewhat oblique slope. Pro- and meso-pleura 

 shining, impunctate; except a broad punctured projection 

 down the mesopleurae, the projection itself being covered 

 with long pale golden hairs ; and, above, it forms a pro- 

 jecting tooth, behind which is another slightly larger 

 and rounder one. Legs black ; the femora slightly, the 

 tibiae and tarsi thickly covered with long golden hairs. 

 Abdomen longer than head and thorax together; black; 

 an orange-coloured mark of hairs, broader than long and 

 with the sides rounded, in the centre of the second seg- 



