MT7TILLA. 223 



Species from Central America and St. Domingo. 

 Div. I. With the thorax black. (Sp. 101-111.) 



101. Mutilla melancholica. 



Female. Length 5-7J lines. — Black, with the thorax more or less 

 obscurely red above, and with black and white pubescence. The 

 head with black pubescence. The thorax and abdomen rugose, the 

 former bidentate on each side ; the metathorax clothed with long 

 white pubescence, as well as the intermediate and posterior legs. 

 The basal segment of the abdomen, the apical margin of the second 

 segment, and the third entirely, with long white pubescence ; the 

 second segment with a large black tuft ; the apical segments entirely 

 clothed with black pubescence. 



Hab. St. Domingo. 



102, Mutilla araneoides. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Blaek ; the vertex and a semicircular 

 spot on the thorax in front of bright rufo-fulvous pubescence ; the 

 head and thorax beneath with white pubescence ; a spot on each 

 side of the metathorax, two ovate ones on the second segment of 

 the abdomen, a narrow fascia on its apical margin, the third seg- 

 ment and the fourth laterally covered with bright pale yellowish- 

 white pubescence ; the rest of the thorax and abdomen with black 

 pubescence ; the legs have a bright pale pubescence, the posterior 

 femora with black pubescence at their apex. 



Hab. Nicaragua, St. Juan del Sur. 



103. Mutilla macrocephala. 



Female. Length Q\ lines. — Clothed with ferruginous pubescence ; 

 head and abdomen obscure ferruginous, thorax black. Head wider 

 than the thorax, subquaclrate, the cheeks armed with a sharp spine. 

 The thorax short, narrowed behind ; the metathorax with black 

 pubescence. The basal segment of the abdomen and the legs with 

 black pubescence, the second and following segments fringed with 

 black pubescence. 



Hab. Orizaba. 



104. Mutilla munifica. 



Female. Length 4|-7 lines. — Black, with pubescent rusty-golden 

 spots. Head narrower than the thorax, and covered above with 

 rusty-golden pubescence ; beneath, and also on the thorax and 

 abdomen beneath, the pubescence is pale yellowish- white. Thorax 



