a bilobata ornato.

_Female._ Length 4-1/4 lines. The head and thorax of a metallic purple
tint with shades of green and copper; the scape of the antennae, the
mandibles, palpi, and legs ferruginous; the head and thorax closely and
strongly punctured. The abdomen velvety black; the base truncate, the
truncation smooth and shining; its margin carinate; the upper surface of
the basal segment yellowish-white, a broad bilobed fascia of the same
colour at the apical margin of the second segment; the apex ferruginous.
_Male._ The head and thorax metallic green, strongly and closely
punctured; abdomen black and shining, much more finely punctured than
the thorax; wings light brown, with their base and extreme apex hyaline;
the legs ferruginous.

_Hab._ Aru.

4. MUTILLA NIGRA. _M._ nigra et punctata, abdomine laevi et nitido,
delicatule punctato, alis fuscis, basi hyalinis.

_Male._ Length 6-1/2 lines. Black; head and thorax closely and strongly
punctured; the eyes slightly notched; the face with silvery-white
pubescence, the mandibles shining, the palpi black. Thorax: the
metathorax densely clothed with yellowish-white pubescence; the legs
with glittering white hairs, the calcaria white; wings brown with their
base hyaline. Abdomen smooth and shining, delicately and sparingly
punctured, with a few silvery hairs at the sides.

_Hab._ Aru.

5. MUTILLA EXILIS. _M._ nigra et punctata; abdomine laevigato, nitido;
alis subhyalinis; facie et metathorace pube argentata vestitis.

_Male._ Length 6-1/2 lines. Black; head and thorax strongly punctured;
the eyes emarginate, the face with glittering silvery-white pubescence,
the cheek thinly sprinkled with silvery hairs; the palpi testaceous.
Thorax: the metathorax densely clothed with silvery pubescence, beneath,
at the sides, and also the legs with scattered silvery hairs, the
calcaria white; the tegulae shining; the wings subhyaline with the
nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen shining black, smooth, and very
delicately and sparingly punctured, the apical margins of the segments
very thinly fringed with glittering silvery hairs.

_Hab._ Aru.

Tribe FOSSORES, _Latr._

Fam. SCOLIADAE, _Leach_.

Gen. MYZINE.

1. MYZINE TENUICORNIS. _M._ nigra, alis hyalinis, abdomine nitido
flavoque variegato.

_Male._ Length 7 lines. Black; the head and thorax very closely
punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face,
thorax beneath, and on the coxae most dense and gl