Mutilla Urania

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 83

4. Mutilla Urania .

M. capite thoraceque sanguineis; abdomine nigro, basi segmenti secundi macula ovata, fasciaque segmenti tertii, flavescenti-albis.

Female. Length 6 1/2 lines. Head and thorax blood-red and coarsely rugose; the mandibles and antennae black; the flagellum obscurely red beneath. Thorax: the legs black and covered with glittering yellowish-white pubescence. Abdomen: longitudinally rugose, a reversed heart-shaped spot at the base of the second segment, and the third covered with yellowish-white pubescence; a triangular black spot at the base of the third segment in the middle; beneath, the segments are fringed with long pale hairs; the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with a sooty-black pubescence.

Male. Length 5 - 5 1/2 lines. This sex has the head nearly, or quite black; the eyes slightly reniform. Thorax red; the wings dark brown with a purple iridescence, pale towards their base. Abdomen black, smooth and shining, much narrowed at the base, and subpetiolate; the second and two following segments fringed with long white pubescence; the three apical segments fringed with black. Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).