Hymenoptera aculeata collected in Algeria. 529 



MUTILLA PUNCTATA, Latr. 



$ 2. Alger, 22. iv. 98. F. D. M. 



Mutilla maroccana, Oliv. = Immeralis, Rad. 



$. Medea. Koudia Sma on Daucus carola, 8. vii. 



93. A. E. E. 

 t 2. Biskra, 2. vi. 98. F. D. M. 

 £. Constantine On M'cid, 17. xi. 94. A. E. E. 



Mutilla continua, Klug. 



$. Biskra, 1 specimen. Foot of the first part of 

 the ridge beyond Beni Mora, 2. vi. 94. A. E. E. 



Mutilla tunensis. 



£ Azazga, 7. ix. 93. A. E. E. 



Mutilla Montana, Panz. = mlcomata, Wesm. 



$. Biskra, 8 specimens. Visiting larval Hemiptera 

 on Thymelsea microphylla, 28. iv. 95. A. E. E. 

 1 ?. Alger, 19. iv. 98. F. D. M. 

 $. Biskra, Hippone, iii. and iv., 95, 96, 97. A. E. E. 



The $ specimens vary exceedingly in colour. One has 

 the entire thorax and the base of the abdomen red, a second 

 the entire thorax only, a third the pro- and meso-thorax 

 exclusive of the scutellum, a fourth the pro- and meso- 

 thorax including the scutellum, a fifth the meso-thorax and 

 propodeum only, a sixth the pronotum and scutellum only; 

 in fact, every possible variation in colour seems liable to 

 occur. The form of the propodeum appears to vary consider- 

 ably, but in all the 2nd abdominal segment is much wider 

 than in ricfipes, its near ally. 



I have followed Andre (Synops Mntill., France, 2nd Ed., 

 p. 35) in considering subcomata as only a small variety of 

 the $ of this species. In one of the specimens the petiole 

 of the body is pale testaceous, the pale colour running 

 under the silvery spot of the basal segment. This variety, 

 however, seems to me to agree with that of the first $ 

 variety, which has the base of the abdomen red. 



Mutilla uncinata, Luc. 



$. 1 specimen, Constantine, 22. x. 95. A. E. E. 



