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114. Mutilla salutatrix. 



Female. Length 3-4 lines. — Black, with the thorax and legs fer- 

 ruginous, the antennae and mandibles obscurely so. Head much 

 wider than the thorax, subquadrate, the posterior angles acute; 

 with golden-yellow pubescence above, and a black semicircular 

 spot on the vertex anteriorly. Thorax narrowed behind, constricted 

 about the middle ; the margins with a series of compressed teeth, 

 closely and strongly punctured above. Abdomen with the margin 

 of the first segment, a triangular spot at the base of the second, 

 from which a narrow line emanates and unites with a broad fascia 

 near the apical margin of the same segment, of bright golden- 

 coloured pubescence ; from the transverse fascia a line of similar 

 pubescence runs longitudinally to the apex. 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba. 



115. Mutilla separata. 



Female. Length 3-4 lines. — Head and abdomen black ; thorax and 

 legs ferruginous. The head a little wider than the thorax, slightly 

 narrowed and rounded behind. The thorax somewhat fiddle-shaped 

 and finely rugulose ; legs obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen with a 

 sharp carina in the middle from the base to the apex of the second 

 segment ; the margin of the basal segment and an elongate angular 

 spot at the base of the second segment of silvery-white pubescence ; 

 the second segment with two, ovate, pubescent, pale-yellow maculae ; 

 the following segments with white pubescence. 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba. 



116. Mutilla blandina. 



Female. Length 3-3| lines. — Ferruginous ; the head and thorax 

 finely rugulose ; the flagellum of the antennae and the tips of the 

 mandibles black. The head wider than the thorax and subquadrate ; 

 the latter fiddle-shaped, its margins crenulated. The apical margin 

 of the basal segment of the abdomen, and the middle of the basal 

 margin of the second, with bright golden-coloured pubescence, with 

 two ovate spots of the same colour near the apical margin of the 

 second segment ; the apical margin and the rest of the segments 

 with bright golden pubescence ; a black spot between the ovate 

 maculae. 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba. 



