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 PLATE CCXtL 



MUTILLA EUROP£A. 



European Mutilla. 



Hymenoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae filiform : Feelers four, the articulations obconic, feated 

 on the tip of the lip : jaw membraneous at the apex : lip projecting: 

 in moll fpecies no wings : body pubefcent i thorax retufe behind 5 

 fling pungent and concealed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Head black : thorax red : abdomen black ; margins of fome 

 fegments whitilh. 



Mutilla Europ^a: nigra thorace rufo, abdominis fegmentis 

 margine albo. — Fab. Ent. Syjl. t. 3. 368. 9. 



Mutilla Europaea, nigra abdornine Fefeiis duabus albis, thorace antice 

 ntfo.—Lmn. Syft. Nat. 2. 966. 4.— f». Sv. 1727, 

 Sulz. Hifl. Inf. tab. 27. fig. 23.24,. 



Apis Aptera : Udm. Dif 98. tab. 17. 



The Mutillae feem lefs clearly defined than moft of the Linnasan 

 genera. That author defcribed only a fmall number of the fpecies, 

 and was even doubtful whether feveral that were placed under that 

 divifion of his fyftem did net more properly belong to fome other, 

 efpecially to the ichneumons, among which feveral apterous Infeas 

 are included. g ^ 



