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22. Mutilla verficolor: abdomen black at each end, 
and rufous in the middle, with a white band, in which is 
a black dot. It inhabits America. 
23. Mutilla reg-alis : hairy, black; front cinereous; 
thorax rufous; abdomen with four white dots, the middle 
one elongated. Found in Hungary. 
24. Mutilla ruficollis : hairy and black; thorax rufous. 
Found in Italy. 
25. Mutilla ciliata : hairy, black ; thorax rufous; feg- 
ments of the abdomen edged with a cinereous fringe. 
Inhabits Saxony. 
26. Mutilla erythrocephala: hairy and black; head 
rufous; abdomen with three gold bands. 
27. Mutilla glabrata: fmooth, black; thorax and abdo¬ 
men rufous beneath. It is found in the Eaft; and is a 
final! infeft. 
28. Mutilla rufipes : hairy and black; antennae, tho¬ 
rax, and legs, rufous; abdomen with a white dot, and 
two approximate bands. It inhabits Saxony ; and is 
fmajl, 
29. Mutilla melanocephala: hairy and rufous; head 
and tip of the abdomen black. Inhabits France. 
30. Mutilla nigripes: rufous ; tail black, with approxi¬ 
mate white ftreaks ; legs black. Inhabits the Eaft. 
31. Mutilla Indica : black; abdomen with a pale yellow 
band and white line. Found in the Eaft Indies and 
South America. 
32. Mutilla brutia : black; thorax rufous; abdomen 
with fix filvery-white fpots and band. Inhabits Calabria. 
33. Mutilla littoralis: black; thorax rufous; fore¬ 
part of the abdomen with a two-lobed white fpot; the 
five hind fegments edged with white. This is alio found 
in Calabria. 
34. Mutilla fpinofa: yellowifh, varied with black; 
thorax with four fpines on each fide; the fecond leg¬ 
men t of the abdomen has two teflaceous fpots. It in¬ 
habits America. 
35. Mutilla cephalotes : head large and black, fpinous 
on each fide; abdomen with a gold fpot, and three white 
interrupted bands. Found in Georgia. 
36. Mutilla bifafciata: black; head and thorax red; 
abdomen with two red bands ; the wings are violet-black. 
Found in New York. 
37.. Mutilla fex-punftata: black; thorax fubcylindri- 
cal, immaculate; abdomen with three whitilh dots on 
each fide. Inhabits Africa. 
38. Mutillafex-maculata; black; thorax rufous above ; 
abdomen with a row of three whitilh fpots on each fide. 
9 Jn'habits India. 
MfJTI'NA, in ancient geography, a municipal city of 
Gallia Cifpadana, fituated towards the eall, and near 
Sc ul ten a. It received a Roman colony about the year 
182 J 3 . C. Now Modena, which fee. 
MU'TINE,/ [matin, Fr.] A mutineer; a mover of 
inlurreftic.B. Not in ufe. 
In my heart there was a kind of fighting, 
That would not let me lleep ; methought I lay 
■Wcrlc than’the mutinee in the bilboes. Shakespeare. 
To MINFINE, v. n. [mntiner, Fr. This is the old 
word, flickes derives mutiny from mot, Sax. a meeting.] 
To rife in mutiny.—Upon all occafions ready to mutine 
and rebel,. Horton's Anal. of Mel. — The foldiers fo mutined, 
that at lall the generals were conftrained to embarque 
■themfelves and come home to England. Lord Herbert's 
Hen. VIII. — Againil this decree all the whole faction of 
clergymen fretted and mutined. Bp. Hall. 
MU 1 INEE y R, j. [from matin , Fr. Our word was 
formerly written mutiner, full as often as mutineer; and 
is fo in our old lexicography.] A mover of /edition ; an 
oppoler of lawful authority.—They have cafhiered feyeral 
of their followers as mutineers , who have contradicted 
them in political cpnv.erfations. Addifon. 
Set wide the mufti's garden-gate; 
For there our mutineers appoint to meet. 
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MU'TING, f. The dung of birds. — The bird not 
being able to digeft the fruit, from her incon verted muring 
arifeth this plant. Brown's Vulg. y Err. 
With hooting wild 
Thou caufeft uproars ; and our holy things, 
Font, table, pulpit, they be all defil'd 
With thy broad matings. More's Life of the Soul. 
MU'TINOUS, adj. Seditious; bufy in infurredtion; 
turbulently.—The law's of England fhould be adminifter- 
ed, and the mutinous feverely fupprelfed. Hayward. 
Lend me your guards, that, if perfuafion fail. 
Force may againft the mutinous prevail. Waller. 
My ears are deaf with this impatient crowd ; 
Their wants are now grown mutinous and loud. Dnjden. 
MU'TINOUSLY, ado. Seditioufly; turbulently.—Men 
imprudently often, feditioufly and mutinoujly fometimes, 
employ their zeal for perfons. Sprat's Sermons. 
MU'TINOUSNESS, f. Seditioufnefs; turbulence. Ajh. 
To MU'TINY, v. 71. To rife againft authority ; tomake 
infurredlion ; to move fedition.—When Caefar’s army 
mutinied, and grew troublefome, no argument could 
appeafe them. South's Sermons. 
The people mutiny, the fort is mine, 
And all the foldiers to my will incline. Waller. 
MU'TINY, f. Infurredtion; fedition.—Soldiers grow 
pernicious to their mailer w'ho becomes their fervant, 
and is in danger of their mutinies as much as any govern¬ 
ment of leditious. Temple. 
V the w'ar. 
Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they fhew’d 
Molt valour, fpoke not for them. Shalicfpeare's Coriot. 
An adt is annually pafled by parliament, called the 
munity-a6l, “ to punifli mutiny and defertion, and for the 
better payment of the army and their quarters.” This 
regulates the manner in which they are to be difperfed 
among the feveral inn-keepers and vidtuallers through 
the kingdom, and eftabiilhes a law martial for their govern¬ 
ment. By this, befides other things comprifed in the 
Articles of War, enumerated and enforced in this adt, 
(fee 49 Geo. III. c. 12.) it is enadted, that if any officer 
or foldier fhall excite or join any mutiny, or, knowing of 
it, 111 a 11 not give notice to the commanding officer; or 
fhall defert, or lift in any other regiment, or deep upon 
his poll, or leave it before he is relieved, or hold cor- 
refpondence with a rebel or an enemy, or ftrike or ufe 
violence to his fuperior officer, or ffiali difobey his lawful 
commands; fuch offender ffiali fuft’er fuch punifhment as 
a court-martial fhall inflidl, though it extends to death 
itfelf. After the abdication of James II. and the acceffion 
of William III. the military code obtained the fandtion of 
parliament, though pafled only from year to year, under 
the denomination of the humify-act. The firft of thefe 
adls pafled on the 12th of April, 1689, and was to con¬ 
tinue in force to the 10th of November in the fame year. 
MU'TINYING,/! The adt of refilling lawful authority. 
MU'TIS (Joleph-Celeftine), a learned Spanilli phyficiau 
and divine, celebrated for his botanical difeoveries in the 
country of New Granada, and no iefs diftinguifhed by the 
excellence of his charadter than the extent and variety 
of his knowledge, was born at Cadiz in 1734, of ail 
Italian father and a Spanifh mother. His parents placed 
him under the tuition of Don Pedro Virgilio, principal 
navy-furgeon, and profelfor in the military academy of 
Cadiz, honourably mentioned in Loefling’s Letters to 
Linnaeus. Mutis devoted himfelf to tire ltudyof medicine 
tili his twenty firft year, when lie entered at the univeriity 
of Seville. His late preceptor being loon afterwards futn- 
inoned, with other eminent medical pradtidoners, to a 
confultation upon the declining health of Ferdinand VI. 
and his queen, Mutis was choien to accompany him to 
Madrid. There the young man procured many friends, 
and 
Drydcn. 
