Mutilla. HYMENOPTERA; 203 



Genus X. Mutilla. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. page 966. 

 The Mutillae, for the mod part, want 



wmg 



s. 



Their body is covered with a kind of 

 down. 



The thorax ftrikes off bluntly at its 

 bafe, or rifes perpendicularly from the 

 part where joined to the abdomen. 



The fting is pointed, and concealed 

 within the body. 



The Mutillae are as yet very little known, 

 only two or three fpecies have been found with 

 wings, and we are ignorant whether thefe are 

 males or females; perhaps they live in fociety like 

 the Ant, and the apterous fpecies are neuters. 

 Moft of the infcds without wings, arranged by 

 different authors under this Genus, appear to be 

 either Ichneumon's or Spheges > that defcribed 

 by Scopoli was moft probably an Ichneumon, 

 from the vibrating motion of its antennae ; and 



Linnseus 



