202 MUTILLID^. 



bo more than a variety, since, independent of the colour of the pu- 

 bescence of the head being different, its thorax is narrower and more 

 elongate. 



36. Mutilla scabrosa. 



Female. Length 4-5| lines. — Black ; the head and thorax with 

 coarse confluent punctures ; the flagellum beneath and the man- 

 dibles at their base obscurely ferruginous ; the entire insect with 

 thinly scattered erect pale pubescence ; the legs rufo-piceous, the 

 tarsi ferruginous. The sides of the thorax parallel anteriorly, 

 thence abruptly narrowed to the truncation of the metathorax ; the 

 truncation opaque and not visibly punctured. The first and second 

 segments of the abdomen with strong elongate punctures that are 

 more or less confluent and running into striae ; in the middle of the 

 margin of the basal segment a little bright pubescence, the second 

 segment fringed with the same. 



Hab. Swan Kiver. 



37. Mutilla pallidicornis. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax closely and 

 strongly punctured, the latter most deeply and coarsely so, the 

 punctures becoming confluent and running into irregular striae ; the 

 apical margins of the first and second segments of the abdomen 

 with a narrow white pubescent fascia ; the fourth and following 

 segments with pale yellowish-white pubescence. The antennas pale 

 ferruginous, and the mandibles ferruginous towards their base. The 

 thorax narrowed beyond the middle to the truncation of the meta- 

 thorax ; the tarsi ferruginous, as well as the coxae, trochanters, and 

 base of the femora beneath. The entire insect, beneath, with thin 

 white scattered pubescence. 



Hah. New South Wales, 



38. Mutilla hospes. 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Black ; the head rounded behind, 

 strongly punctured, the punctures more or less confluent. Thorax 

 anteriorly rounded, narrowed behind the middle ; covered above 

 with coarse punctures that run into striae ; the intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae with three or four spines exteriorly, the calcaria 

 white. Abdomen finely rugose ; a transverse silvery-white pubes- 

 cent macula at the apical margin of the first and second segments* 

 and a central line of the same on the three following segments ; 

 above, with scattered erect black pubescence, at the sides and be- 

 neath with white. 



Hab. Western Australia, Champion Bay, 



