204 MUTILLLD^l. 



Div. II. Thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 42-44.) 

 42. Mutilla pacificatrix. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head, legs, and abdomen black ; the 

 thorax ferruginous. The head with pale golden -coloured pubes- 

 cence above, that beneath is white. Thorax oblong-quadrate, 

 coarsely punctured, covered with short decumbent pale golden 

 pubescence, and having also erect pale fulvous hairs thinly sprinkled 

 above ; the pubescence on the legs white. The abdomen with thin, 

 erect, black pubescence ; the basal segment margined with white 

 pubescence ; there are two ovate pubescent spots in the middle of 

 the second segment, a little white pubescence in the middle of its 

 apical margin, and a similar minute spot in the middle of the api- 

 cal margin of the fifth segment ; beneath, the segments are fringed 

 with white pubescence. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



43. Mutilla auropilosa. 



Female. Length 2 J lines. — The head, femora, apical margin of the 

 second abdominal segment, and the following segments entirely 

 black, otherwise ferruginous ; the apical joint of the flagellum 

 black ; the head, thorax, and two basal segments of the abdomen 

 covered with short gold-coloured pubescence, and thinly sprinkled 

 with erect pale hairs ; the apical margins of the second, third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments black, interrupted in the middle by a 

 line of gold-coloured pubescence ; the apical segment black and 

 longitudinally aciculate. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



44. Mutilla notabilis. 



Female. Length 3| lines. — Ferruginous, with the head and anterior 

 margin of the thorax black. The antennas and mandibles ferru- 

 ginous ; the vertex of the head densely covered with gold-coloured 

 pubescence. Thorax oblong- ovate, closely and rather finely punc- 

 tured ; the sides with dense short whitish pubescence. The ab- 

 domen finely rugulose ; the second segment with two small oblong 

 pubescent spots towards the base ; a broad stripe of gold-coloured 

 pubescence on each side from the apical margin of the second seg- 

 ment to the apex ; between the stripes the abdomen is blackish. 



Hab. Tasmania. 



