192 MUTILLIDiE. 



oblong confluent punctures above, smooth and shining at the sides. 

 Abdomen oblong-ovate, covered with oblong, irregular, confluent 

 punctures ; the apical margin of the first segment with a narrow 

 fascia of white pubescence, the third covered with similar pubes- 

 cence ; beneath, evenly punctured. 



Male. The size of the female, but differs in colouring, having the 

 metathorax black and covered with large coarse punctures. Head 

 not wider than the thorax ; the eyes emarginate. The wings fus- 

 cous, and with three distinct submarginal cells. The abdomen 

 with the first segment strongly, and the second finely, punctured, 

 with white fasciae similar to those of the female. 



Hab. Natal. 



8. Mutilla stinmlatrix. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, with the thorax ferruginous above. 

 The head with golden -yellow pubescence above. Thorax oblong, 

 much narrowed behind and rugose above; the legs with short 

 glittering white pubescence, and, as well as the head and thorax, 

 sprinkled with long black hairs. Abdomen deep velvet-black ; a 

 silvery-white pubescent spot on the basal segment, an ovate one at 

 the base of the second, and also a larger transverse spot near its 

 apical margin, on each side, with a spot also at the apex of the 

 abdomen, which is thinly sprinkled with black erect pubescence 

 above and with white beneath ; the second segment beneath rugose, 

 and the margins of all the segments fringed with white pubes- 

 cence. 



Var. ? "With the antennae, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous, of the same 

 form, and with similar markings. 



Hab. South Africa. 



9. Mutilla petulans. 



Female. Length 2| lines. — Head, abdomen, and legs black ; thorax 

 ferruginous and oblong-quadrate. Head as wide as the thorax, 

 rugose, with the mandibles ferruginous in the middle. Thorax 

 rugose, truncate anteriorly and posteriorly, the sides parallel ; the 

 metathorax, the sides beneath, and the legs with erect scattered 

 pale fulvous pubescence. The abdomen with two ovate spots on 

 the second segment of pale fulvous pubescence, an interrupted band 

 of the same on the third ; the apical segment longitudinally striated 

 and fringed at the sides with pale pubescence. 



Hab. West Africa. 



10. Mutilla horrida. 

 Female. Length 5-5 1 lines.— Coarsely rugose, the head and abdomen 



