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the temples more strongly than the sides of the vertex. Apex of mandibles bluntly 

 narrowed. The 3rd antennal joint is as long as the 4th. Thorax bluntly rounded at 

 the base and apex; rugose, the pleura? more distinctly than the upper part, the punc- 

 tures running into reticulations. Metathorax closely reticulated, except on the lower part 

 of the metapleurae, which is covered with round distinctly separated punctures, the two 

 parts being separated by a smooth line. The hair on the femora is white in front, black 

 behind; on the rest of the legs black; the calcaria white. 



Mutilla phegea, sp. uov. 



Black, densely covered with long black hair, the 3rd abdominal segment with 

 broad lateral bands (broader than the black central part) of depressed white pubescence, 

 the apical 2 dorsal segments densely covered with long white hair, the apices of the 

 ventral segments with narrow bands of similar hair; the hair on the legs black; the spurs 

 white. Wings uniformly fuscous violaceous, the nervures black, the 2nd and 3rd ab- 

 scissae of the radius black; the 2nd transverse cubital nervure is roundly angled towards 

 the 3rd in the middle. The keel on basal ventral segment roundly, broadly curved, the 

 apex more prolonged than the base. Scutellum rounded, flat, hardly projecting over the 

 mesonotum. The 3rd antennal joint twice the length of the 2nd and half the length of 

 the 4th; the 2nd and 3rd united not being so long as the 4th. Head rounded behind 

 the eyes; the temples as long as the lop of the latter, a 71 - 



Length 16 mm. 



Mem low lands, Ngare na nyuki, January. 



Head as wide as the thorax, above and on the temples closely reticulated. Pro- 

 notum and upper part of propleurse coarsely reticulated, the lower part of the latter 

 smooth. Mesonotum strongly punctured and with 2 furrows in the centre. Scutellum 

 not much raised, rounded, coarsely reticulated. Metanotum and upper half of meta-. 

 pleura 3 reticulated; the centre of the former at the base with 2 arese of equal width and 

 not much longer than wide, bordered by an area as wide as the central 2 united and 

 narrowed on the outer side. The lower part of the metapleurje strongly punctured, this 

 part separated from the upper reticulated one by a smooth space, which becomes 

 gradually widened towards the apex. Tegulae strongly, but not closely punctured 

 throughout. 



This species was found by Prof. SJOSTEDT flying on the open plains. 



Mutilla spilotonia, sp. nov. 



Black, a band, narrowly interrupted in the middle, on the apex of the 2nd and a 

 broader one, less widely interrupted, covering the apical two-thirds of the 3rd segment 

 of depressed white pubescence, a band of longer pubescence on the apex of the 1st and 

 similar bands on the apices of the 2nd and 3rd ventral segments; the basal segment 

 above with longish white hair; the hair on the rest of the abdomen dense and black. 

 The keel on the basal ventral segment curved, dilated triangularly at the apex. Wings 



