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white pubescence at the base of the second segment, and a fascia of 

 the same on its apical margin ; the third segment has also a 

 similar fascia ; the apical segment smooth and shining, and fringed 

 at the sides with pale fulvous pubescence. 



Hah. Sarawak. 



This species is very like Mutilla deidamia of Borneo, but that 

 species has three ovate white spots on the second segment. 



Div. III. Black, with the legs ferruginous. (Sp. 34.) 

 34. Mutilla exacta. 



Male. Length 7 lines. — Black, the legs ferruginous, the abdomen 

 with golden-coloured pubescent fasciae. The vertex of the head 

 longitudinally irregularly punctate-striate ; the face with pale 

 golden pubescence ; the inner orbits of the eyes slightly notched. 

 The thorax coarsely punctured ; the sides, the metathorax, and be- 

 neath with thin bright golden-coloured pubescence, that on the 

 tibiae and tarsi of the same colour ; the coxae black ; the wings 

 fuscous. Abdomen punctured, not very closely so on the second 

 segment ; the apical margins of the first, second, and third segments 

 with fasciae of gold-coloured pubescence, that on the following seg- 

 ments is black. 



Hah. Shanghai. 



Australian Species. 



Div. I. The thorax black. (Sp. 35-41.) 



35. Mutilla auric eps. 



Female. Length 6-7 lines. — Black, coarsely punctured ; the vertex 

 with bright golden-coloured pubescence, that on the cheeks silvery 

 white. Thorax oblong, its anterior margin slightly rounded, the 

 lateral angles acute, widened nearly to the middle, then narrowed 

 to the metathorax, rugose-punctate ; beneath, and also the legs, 

 with scattered white pubescence. The second segment of the ab- 

 domen with coarse, irregular, elongate punctures ; a spot of silvery- 

 white pubescence in the middle of the basal segment, an oblong one 

 at the base of the second segment, a third at its apical margin, and 

 two smaller ones in a line beyond ; at the extreme lateral margins 



•of the second, third, and sometimes of the fourth segment a tuft 

 of white pubescence ; beneath, usually more or less obscurely fer- 

 ruginous. 



Hah. Australia. 



This species is closely allied to M. formicaria ; but it appears to 



