MUTILL^ OF NEW HOLLAND. 
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nbus et subtus femigineis ; hoc otreliquis ad marginem posticum pilis aureis; facie ante 
oculospUna ct recte truncata. $. Long. corp.liQ.2i. ^i«auie 
Habitat in Terra Van Diemenii. In Mus. D. W. W. Saunders, P. L. S. 
Species X.—Muma elegans, -SYestw. (Plate S3, fig. 2.) M. tota cDcrulea nitida punc- 
ta^, cincrascenti-hirta, antennis longis tarsisque nigris, abdomine elongate, segmento Imo 
petiolari, alis pallido ciuerascenti-hyalinis apice late fuscis. 
Expans. alar. lin. 6|. 
Habitat in Terra Van Diemenii. D, Ewing. Mus. Brit, et Westw. 
Long, corp, lin. 4 
In this species the veins separating the submarginal cells ai*e 
inserted into the marginal cell at nearly equal distances apart; 
and the first recurrent vein is received by the second submarginal 
cell rather beyond the middle, whilst the second recurrent vein is 
received nearly at the extremity of the third submarginal cell, 
forming nearly a straight line with the extremity of the third sub¬ 
marginal cell. 
Species XI, I^IutiUa ahdotninalis^ Westw. (Plate 53, fig, 1.) M, nigra tenulter punctata 
hirta, capite scutelloque cincrascenti hirtis, abdomine obscure purpureo tenuissirae pimc- 
tato pilis albis utrinque ad apicem segmentorum 2di et ultimi; pedibus nigria, tibiarum 
4 posticarum ct articulo basali taraorum albis; alis fuscis, hyalino-variegatis, segmento 
basali abdominis parvo nodum parvum transversum ad basin formanti, 2do magno cam- 
panulato. Long. corp. lin. 6. Expans, alar. lin. 11. 
Habitat io Australasia. In l^Ius. Brit. 
The insertion of the veins in this species is very similar to that 
of the preceding species. 
Species XII.—morosa, Westw. (Plate 54, fig, 1.) M. nigra punctata nigro- 
hirta, thoraco rugosc-punctato, abdomine fascia pilorum alborum ad apicem segmentorum 
Imi et 2di, hoc parum constricto, alis liyalino ct fusco variis, apice late fusco. Long. corp. 
lin. 6. Expans, alar. lin. 0^. 
Habitat “Swan River.’' In Mus. Brit. 
Species XIII .—JStutilla condnna^ Westw. (Plate 53, fig. 3.) M. capite magno, cyaneo 
punctato antice bicorniculato, tboiace parvo nigro oblongo-punctato, lateribus et subtus 
ferrugineis, abdomine magno mneo nitido, sericeo, postice pilis aureis in maculas dispositis 
ornato, antennarum articulo basali mandibullsque (nisi ad apices oblique emaiginatos) 
pedibusque ferrugineis. Long. corp. lin, 4^, 
Habitat in Terra Van Diemenii. Mus. Newman, Westwood, etc. The trophi do not differ 
in this curious species from those of the rest of tiiu genus. 
Genus, —PSAMATHA, Shuckard. 
This genus was established by Mr. Shuckard, in the Transactions 
of the Entomological Society of London, for the reception of an 
insect having precisely the habit of a male Mellinus, but remark¬ 
able as being the only one yet characterized among tlie Mutillidse 
in which the second sub-marginal cell receives both the recurrent 
nervures,* in which respect it also differs from all the species of 
insects of which Thynnus is the typical form, except the genus 
Tachypterus Guerin. Dr. King having on this account omitted 
the genus and its supposed female in his beautiful memoir on the 
Thynni, recently published in the Berlin Transactions, I have been 
^ Shk, in Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 69. 
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