we have made use of many characters which have not hitherto received
due attention. Experience has shown us that not one of these characters,
taken separately, can serve as a basis for classification, because many
■of them are combined, in the most opposite ways, with other characters.
This evidently indicates that the family in question consists of several
parallel, or rather diverging, series, having points of contact, in which
are repeated the same modifications, by which corresponding types
are formed in different series.
S a p y g i i .
Sapyga, Latr.
r . S a p y g a d a v i c o m i s , L i n .
2 . „ e x o m a t a , G e r s t .
M u t i l l i d a e .
Methoca. Latr.
i . M e t h o c a i c h n e u m o n o i d e s .
Myrmosa, Latr.
I . M y r m o s a m e l a n o c e p h a l a , F b r . _R
a d o s z k o w s k y i , n.s.
Mutilla, Lin., F.
Fedchenkia, n. gen.
F e d c h e n k i a g r o s s a , n.s.
S c o l i a e .
Scolia (Sensu latiore).
Scolia. Lin.
Triscolia, Saussure et Sichel.
T r i s c o l i a h a e m o r r h o i d a l i s , F a b r .
Discolia, Saussure et Sichel.
D i s c o l i a e r y t h r o c e p h a l a , F a b r .
f l a v i c e p s , E v e r s m .
q u a d r i p u n c t a t a , F a b r .
i n f u s c a t a , K l u g ,
b i f a s c i a t a , R o s s i ,
u n i f a s c i a t a , C y r i l l .
8 . ’ D i s c o l i a m a u r a , F a b r .
9 . , , V o l l e n h o v e n i , S a u s s . ,
1 0 . „ I n d i c a ,
Elis, Fabr.
'l'rielis. Saussure et Sichel.
1 . T r i e l i s F e d c h e n k o i , n.s.
2. , , t a r t a r a , n.s.
3 . „ v i l l o s a , F a b r ;
D ielis, Saussure et Sichel.
4. D i e l i s a n n u l a t a , F a b r .
Myzine, Latr.
Plesia, Latr.
1 . P l e s i a F e d c h e n k o i , n.s.
Tiphia, Fabr.
1 . T i p h i a m o r i o , F a b r .
2. „ f e m o r a t a , „
3 . „ m i n u t a , n.s.
M e r i a , Illig.
1 . M e r i a t r i p u n c t a t a , R o s s i .
2 . „ t a r t a r a , n'.s,
3 . „ . r a d i a l i s , n.s.
4. „ T i m u r e l l a , n.s.
Fseudomeria, Saund.
1 . P s e u d o m e r i a S w a n e t i a e , R a d o s z k .
2. „ T a m e r l a n e l l a , n.s.
A P P E N D IX A .—M U T IL L ID A E . 575
MUTILLIDAE.
B y O . K e r t z R a d o s z k o v s k y .
Of the number of insects of this genus collected by Fedchenko, there
are 5 species belonging to the European fauna—M. quiriquefasciata
(Greece), cefthalica (Greece and Russia), rufijies, montana (Europe),
lugubris (Russia, Hungary, Spain)— ; 4 species of the fauna of the
Mediterranean basin—M. Tunensis (Spain, Algeria, Persia), Hottentota
(S. Europe, Algeria, Egypt), arenaria (Spain, Caucasus, Persia,
Mongolia), rubrocincta (Algeria)—; 3 species purely African—M. continua
(Egypt, Senegal), decorata, and ornata (Egypt)— ; 3 Central
Asian species—M. bicolor, desertorum. (Sungaria, Syr-daria), crenata
(Sungaria)—; and 3 new species undescribed.
The species M. decorata and ornata were first collected by Savigny ;
their females are represented in his excellent drawings “ Description
de l’Egypte,” Hyménoptères (Planches sans texte), but the males were
unknown. The males and their females were collected by Fedchenko :
—M. decorata in Zarafshan valley and near the Syr-daria, and M.
ornata along the Syr-daria and in the Kizil-Kum.
As we have, in the monograph “ Mutilla,” published by Radoszkovsky
and Sichel, in Horoe Societ. Entomolog. Rossicce, tome vi. p. 139
(1869), a very complete description [in French] of the species of this
genus then known, we borrow thence descriptions of the. species
met with in Turkistan, but previously known in other countries. In
the description of new species found in Turkistan we always refer to
the said work [in the original],
Mutilla, Lin.
I. M u t i l l a q u i n q u e f a s c i a t a , O l i v . 10. M u t i l l a a r e n a r i a , F a b r .
2. „ c e p h a l i c a , R a d . I I. „ i n c e r t a , n.s., R a d .
I „ c o n t i n u a , F a b r . 12. . , r u b r o c i n c t a , L u c . , v a r .
4* „ b i c o l o r , P a l l a s ( n e c O l i v . ) . 13- „ F e d c h e n k o i , n.s., R a d
1 „ T u n e n s i s , F a b r . 14. „ l u g u b r i s , F a b r .
6 . „ d e c o r a t a , S a v . 15- „ a n c e p s , n.s., R a d .
I „ r u f i p e s , L a t r . „ o r n a t a , K l u g .
„ H o t t e n t o t a , F a b r .
16.
8 . 17- „ Z a r a f s c h a n i , n.s., R a d .
9- „ m o n t a n a , P a n z . 1 8 . „ c r e n a t a , , - ,
r I n r e t u r n i n g t h e p r o o f o f t h e a b o v e , G e n e r a l R a d o s z k o v s k y i s g o o d e n o u g h t o
i n f o r m m e t h a t ( 1 ) f i v e y e a r s a g o C a p t a i n B o l o s o g l o m a d e a n e n t o m o l o g i c a l
e x p e d i t i o n t o T u r k i s t a n , a n d f o u n d s o m e n e w s p e c i e s , a m o n g w h i c h i s a
r e m a r k a b l e Ffabrapoda Bolosoglyi, n .s., H y m e n o p t . A p i d a e ; ( 2 ) q u i t e r e c e n t l y
G e n e r a l K o m a r o f f h a s m a d e s c i e n t i f i c e x p l o r a t i o n s b e t w e e n A s k h a b a d a n d
M e i v , a n d a m o n g t h e H y m e n o p t e r a c o l l e c t e d a b o u t A s k h a b a d ( t h e d e s c r i p t i o n
o f w h i c h i s i n t h e p r e s s ) a r e t h e f o l l o w i n g M u t i l l i d a e : —
A g a m a B l a k i i , g. A g a m a K o k p e t i c a , n.s.
, , K o m a r o v i , n.s. T r i c h o l a b i a d e s , n. g.
,, A s k h a b a d e n s i s , n.s. , , a s i a t i c u s , n .s.— H. L.]