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The principal works of this mailer are in the churches of 
Rome. There is a fine pifture of his in dillemperat the 
cathedral of Rheims, reprefenting Chrift walhing the feet 
of his di(cipies, with all the figures as large as life, which 
was purchafed by the regent duke of Orleans, but re¬ 
turned in default of payment. Several pieces of this 
mailer have been engraved, efpecially fome large land- 
fcapes, by C. Cort. Pilhington's Di£l. 
To MU'TXLATE, v. a. [mutiler , Fr. mutilo, Lat. Our 
Word was confidered by P. Heylin, in 1656, as uncouth 
and Itrange. It is, however, in the diftionary of Cot- 
grave, long before that time ; and was much in ufe before 
the reftoration.] To deprive of fome elfential part.— 
Such, fearing to concede a monftrofity, or mutilate the 
integrity of Adam, preventively conceive the creation 
of thirteen ribs. Brown's Vitlg. Err. —Among the mu¬ 
tilated poets of antiquity there is none whofe fragments 
are fo beautiful as thole of Sappho. Addifon. 
MU'TILATE, ndj. Deprived of fome elfential part.— 
Cripples, mutilate in their own perfons, do come out per¬ 
fect in their generations. Brown. 
MUTILA'd ION, f. Deprivation of a limb, or any 
elfential part.—This alteration [from Hofeah to Jehofuah] 
was not made by a verbal mutation, as when Jacob was 
called Ifrael; nor by any literary change, as when Sarai 
was called Sarah; nor yet by diminution or mutilation ; 
but by addition; as when Abram was called Abraham. 
Pearfon on the Creed. —The fubjeft had been opprelfed 
by fines, imprifonments, mutilations, pillories, and banilh- 
ments. Clarendon.—Mutilations are not transmitted from 
father to fon, the blind begetting fuch as can fee: crip¬ 
ples, mutilate in their own perfons, do come out perfect 
in their generations. Brown. 
MU'TILATOR, f. One that mangles, or deprives of 
fome elfential part.—The Ebionites were mutilators of the 
facred text. Quart. Rev. 
MUTIL'LUS, f. in entomology, a genus of infers of 
the order hymenoptera. Generic characters—Antennas 
filiform ; feelers four, the articulations obconic, feated 
on the tip of the lip; jaw membranaceous at the tip; 
lip projecting, obconic. A few only are winged; in 
thole that are provided with thefe inftruments, they are 
refplendent like pearl, and laid horizontally upon the 
back. The body is covered with down; the thorax is 
retufe at the bafe; and the fting is concealed within the 
abdomen. 
The common relidence of the Mutillas is upon the 
ground, below mofs, efpecially where there is a hollow 
lpace between the mofs and the earth. They are gre¬ 
garious; and, when difturbed in their retreats, make 
their efcape by running very fwiftly. In many parti¬ 
culars the inleCts of this genus 1'efemble the ants, but 
are of a larger fize, and more lively colours. The lpecies 
are thirty-eight in number, and mollly inhabitants of 
foreign climes. 
x. Mutilla helvola: the colour of this fpecies is pale 
claret-red, as its name imports; the abdomen is cylin¬ 
drical, pubefeent at the tip; and the thighs are com- 
prelfed. It inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 
2. Mutilla coccinea: fcarlet; abdomen marked with a 
black belt. This is called occulentalis by Linnaeus, though 
for what reafon does not appear, as it feems to inhabit 
only North America, and perhaps fome parts of the north 
of Europe. It has been noticed by Catelby and Fabri- 
cius; from whom we have adopted the epithet coccinea , 
as fcarlet is the prevailing cdlour: there is a black band 
acrofs the abdomen. The iting is filiform, and pretty 
long. See the preceding Plate, at fig. 10. 
3. Mutilla Antiguenfis: fcarlet; tip of the abdomen 
black, with white Itreaks. Inhabits Antigua. 
4. Mutilla Guineenfis: thorax fiubfpinous, variolous, 
piceous ; abdomen black, with two white dots, and an 
interrupted band. It inhabits Guinea, and is large. 
5. Mutilla diadema; black; abdomen with two large 
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yellow dots at the bafe, and an interrupted band in 
the middle: the tip has a white line. It is found in 
Surinam. 
6. Mutilla Americana: black; abdomen with four 
red fpots, and three white lines. An elegant fpecies; 
of a black colour, with the abdomen marked on the fir ft 
fegment by four red fpots, and on each of the relt by three 
large white ones, giving the appearance of three longi¬ 
tudinal white Itripes on that part. It is a native of 
South America. See fig. 11. 
7. Mutilla formicaria : black ; abdomen with a line of 
wliitilh dots down the back. Inhabits New Holland. 
There is a fpecimen of it in the mufeum of fir J. Banks. 
8. Mutilla exulans : black ; abdomen with two yellow 
dots at the bafe, an interrupted ftreak in the middle, and 
a line behind. Inhabits America. 
9. Mutilla aurata: bluifh ; abdomen with a large fpot. 
Inhabits New Holland 5 and may be feen in fir J. Banks’s 
mufeum. 
10. Mutilla Europea : black ; thorax rufous ; fegments 
of the abdomen with white margins. This is defcribed 
in Mr. Donovan’s interefting work on Englifii InfeCts; 
but more particularly by Barbut, in his Genera Infedorum , 
as follows: “ The thorax is of a carroty red, mingled 
with black velvety down ; the abdomen, the commanding 
colour of which is black, is adorned with two, iometimes 
more, yellowifli bands; the head is coal-black ; the eyes 
of a beautiful pearl white ; the legs are velvety, black and 
hairy; the antennas bent, and black. Thefe beautiful 
infers are inhabitants of the ground, and to be met with 
under mofs. Walking in Hyde Park the latter end of 
the fummer in purluit of in lefts, upon turning up the 
mofs, I had the pleafure of feeing a moll beautiful com¬ 
pany of thefe animals. Their wings, which Ihone like 
pearl, were laid horizontally on their back ; and, but few 
of them being alatae, gave the group a fplendid appear¬ 
ance. They were fo fwift in motion, that I could not 
catch any more than one. I believe there might be 
twenty together, which convinces me they live in 1‘ociety 
fimilar to that of the ants. Some were of a brown hue, 
covered with a filky dun-coloured down: thofe were the 
winged ones; the apterous correfpond with that depicted 
in the Plate, fig. 12.” 
11. Mutilla ruficornis: black; antennae rufous; tail 
whitilh. Found in New Holland ; a l’pecimen is pre- 
ferved in fir J. Banks’s mufeum. 
12. Mutilla atrata: black 5 upper part of the thorax 
rufous; abdomen blue, with two wiiite bands. It is an 
African infeCt. 
13. Mutilla maura: black; abdomen with four wiiite 
fpots; thorax rufous. Found in divers parts of Europe. 
14. Mutilla Hungarica : black; front cinereous; thorax 
rufous ; abdomen with fix white dots, and a lheak behind. 
Found in Saxony. 
15. Mutilla coronata: black; front cinereous; thorax 
rufous; abdomen with a lilvery white dot, with two Itreaks. 
Found in Saxony. 
16. Mutilla Halenfis : hairy and black; thorax rufous; 
abdomen with two white dots, and a band behind. This 
alfo inhabits Saxony. 
17. Mutilla arenaria: hairy, black; front and back 
of the thorax white ; abdomen with four white fpots. 
Found in the. fandy plains of Spain. 
18. Mutilla Barbara: hairy and black; fore part of the 
thorax white; abdomen with two white bands. Inhabits 
Barbary. 
19. Mutilla ephippium: hairy black; thorax rufous on 
the back. Inhabits Saxony. 
20. Mutilla Italica: hairy and black; fecond fegment 
of the abdomen rufous. Inhabits Italy. 
21. Mutilla Paxlemontana : hairy and black; fore-part 
of the thorax cinereous; abdomen with two cinereous 
bands; the fecond fegment rufous. Inhabits Italy; and 
is as big again as the M. Italica. 
Mutilla 
