﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliv. 
  (1900), 
  No. 
  15. 
  17 
  

  

  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  segment 
  above 
  is 
  smooth 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  

   the 
  sides 
  punctured 
  and 
  pilose. 
  

  

  MUTILLA 
  LYRATA, 
  Sp. 
  UOV. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  abdominis 
  medio 
  rufo 
  ; 
  alis 
  fusco-violaceis. 
  <$ 
  . 
  

  

  Long. 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Comes 
  into 
  Bingham's 
  " 
  Section 
  A. 
  Thorax 
  black, 
  a 
  1 
  . 
  

   Abdomen 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  red; 
  and 
  b\ 
  Wings 
  dark 
  fuscous, 
  

   with 
  a 
  purple 
  effulgence." 
  

  

  Antennae 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  

   white 
  hair 
  and 
  deeply 
  punctured; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  black; 
  the 
  

   third 
  joint 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  the 
  fourth 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  marked 
  

   with 
  brown 
  ; 
  as 
  are 
  also 
  the 
  apical 
  joints, 
  which 
  are 
  

   distinctly 
  narrowed. 
  Head 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  

   glistening 
  white 
  hair. 
  Front 
  and 
  vertex 
  deeply 
  rugosely 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  oral 
  region 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining 
  ; 
  the 
  

   mandibles 
  black, 
  shining, 
  rufous 
  near 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  

   palpi 
  black, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair. 
  Thorax 
  

   entirely 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  pronotum 
  and 
  mesopleurae 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair. 
  Mesonotum 
  shining, 
  

   uniformly 
  covered 
  with 
  large 
  deep 
  punctures, 
  sparsely 
  

   covered 
  with 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  similarly 
  

   punctured, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  punctures 
  closer 
  together, 
  and 
  it 
  

   is 
  rather 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  pale 
  hair. 
  Median 
  

   segment 
  reticulated, 
  the 
  reticulations 
  larger 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  

   which 
  is 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  pubescence. 
  The 
  

   propleurae 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  above 
  ; 
  on 
  

   the 
  apex 
  near 
  the 
  middle 
  are 
  three 
  stout 
  longitudinal 
  

   keels. 
  Mesopleurae, 
  broadly 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  punctured 
  and 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   pleurae 
  reticulated. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair; 
  

   the 
  calcaria 
  and 
  tarsal 
  spines 
  pale. 
  Wings 
  fusco-violaceous; 
  

   the 
  costal 
  cellule 
  and 
  an 
  oblique 
  cloud 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  cubital 
  

  

  B 
  

  

  