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MTJTILLlD^E. 



73. Mutilla solitaria. 



Female. Length 3-3J lines.— Black ; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 closely and strongly punctured, the pubescence pale yellowish 

 white. The head with a smooth shining carina running from the 

 margin of the vertex to the insertion of the antennas. The anterior 

 margin of the thorax, which is oblong and semiovate, the meso- 

 thorax posteriorly, the metathorax, and sides of the thorax with 

 fine, thin, short pubescence ; the metathorax with a central sharp 

 carina and also a small tubercle at its base laterally. The first 

 segment of the abdomen cylindrical, forming a stout petiole ; the 

 apical margin of the second segment, and the following segments 

 entirely, covered with short pubescence ; beneath, the second seg- 

 ment fringed with snow-white pubescence. 



Hah. Obydos. 



74. Mutilla vagabunda. 



Female. Length 6 lines.— Black, with four orange-red maculse on 

 the second segment of the abdomen. The head the width of the 

 thorax ; the vertex with silvery- white pubescence. Thorax much 

 narrowed posteriorly; a silvery-white pubescent stripe on each 

 side, extending from the point from which the thorax narrows to 

 the apex ; the sides silvery ; the legs with scattered silvery-white 

 hairs. A row of silvery-white pubescent spots down the middle of 

 the abdomen, commencing at the apical margin of the second seg- 

 ment, a similar row at the extreme lateral margins ; the apical 

 segment longitudinally striated. 



Hah. Santarem. 



75. Mutilla albata. 



Female. Length 4 lines.— Black ; the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 clothed above with white pubescence, the thorax in front and the 

 second segment of the abdomen with yellowish-white ; the legs 

 with a thin white pubescence; the apical joints of the tarsi ferru- 

 ginous ; two ovate denuded spots on the second segment of the 

 abdomen obscure reddish brown. 



Hah. Ega. 



76. Mutilla diligens. 



Female. Length 7 Hues.— Black ; the vertex covered with silvery 

 pubescence ; the abdomen with four orange-yellow macula?. The 

 head much narrower than the thorax, which is oblong, narrowed 

 behind, without spines or tubercles, covered with black pubes- 

 cence, and with longer erect black pubescence at the sides : the 



