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The Mutillidae of Cuba 
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Related to rubriceps Cresson and cubensis Blake. Festata 
differs from rubriceps in having the thorax and legs ferruginous, 
and in the pubescent ornamentation of the thorax and abdomen; 
it differs from cubensis in the pubescent ornamentation of the 
abdomen. 
9. Ephuta furcillata n. sp. 
Male. Entirely black, coarsely punctured; head, prothorax, 
mesopleura, dorsum of propodeum, first abdominal tergite, 
apical margin of second tergite and apical margin of second 
sternite clothed with dense, appressed, silky white pubescence; 
scutellum prominently bifurcate; propodeum with a pair of 
tubercles at the antero-lateral angles and a pair of prominent 
teeth a short distance posterior to the tubercles; abdominal 
tergites 3-7 with a median, longitudinal carina; wings hyaline, 
the apical border very broadly fumose. Length, 8 mm. 
Head black, clothed with dense, appressed, silky white 
pubescence; mandibles ferruginous, black at the tips, acute at 
the apex and with a single tooth within; clypeus with a pair of 
carinse originating just anterior of the antennal tubercles, parallel 
on the basal half, strongly diverging on the apical half, thus 
enclosing a space within the arms of a Y, the enclosed space 
glabrous, finely, sparsely punctate; remainder of clypeus densely 
clothed with appressed, silky white pubescence; scape slightly 
concave and bicarinate beneath, above finely and closely punc- 
tured; first segment of flagellum almost equal in length to the 
second; antennal scrobes carinate above; front and vertex with 
moderate, scattered punctures, the intervals between the punc- 
tures finely granulate; gense coarsely, deeply punctured, the 
posterior margin defined by a prominent, slightly crenulate 
carina; relative widths of head and thorax, 3-3.6. 
Thorax black; pronotum and propleura densely, closely, 
foveately punctate, the propleura less so than the pronotum, 
the whole clothed with appressed and erect, silky white pubes- 
cence, not as dense as on the head; mesonotum glabrous, with 
sparse, large punctures, the anterior margin and the postero- 
lateral angles clothed with dense, appressed, silky white pubes- 
