222 SJOSTEDTS KILIHANDJARO-MEKTT EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



joint is wider than long, roundly narrowed at the base, transverse at the apex; the 3rd, 

 thicker than it, as long as broad; the 2 not being together so long as the 4th. Man- 

 dibles with 3 distinct teeth, the apical 2 oblique, the 1st longer and more sharply pointed 

 than the 2nd; the 3rd large, pointing downwards, wide at the base, roundly curved at 

 the apex, transverse at the base, ending in a curved sharp point. Temples roundly 

 narrowed, a little longer than the top of the eyes. Antennal tubercles round, smooth 

 and shining below, punctured above; there is a longish, shining tubercle down the centre 

 of the face; its apex is obliquely sloped. Pygidium more strongly punctured than the 

 rest of the segments, its apex transverse; the hypopygium sparsely punctured in the 

 middle; the sides with a wide, deep, curved furrow. The base of the thorax is almost 

 transverse, the apex is rounded; the tegulce black, strongly punctured. 



Mutilla pulchricolorata, sp. nov. 



Dark blue, the head and pleura? darker coloured, the prothorax, tegula?, mesonotum, 

 scutellum and upper half of mesopleur?e sanguineous; a broad band of pale fulvous 

 pubescence on the sides of the 1st and 3rd abdominal segments and a narrow band on 

 the apex of the 2nd; the head, pro- mesonotum, scutellum and back of abdomen 

 densely covered with blackish hair; the hair on the rest of the head, thorax and ab- 

 domen, as well as the legs, white; the calcaria white; wings fuscous violaceous, the base 

 narrowly hyaline; the 2nd abscissa of the radius is a little longer than the 3rd; the 1st 

 recurrent nervure is received beyond the middle, cf. 



Length 12 mm. 



Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto, low lands, January. 



Head as wide as the thorax, the temples straight, shorter than the eyes, the occiput 

 obliquely dilated from them to the middle; the front and vertex closely reticulated. Man- 

 dibles with a broadly rounded apical tooth; the 2nd is long, transverse and broad, de- 

 pressed in the middle, giving it the appearance of being bidentate. Thorax twice longer 

 than wide, transverse at the base and apex with the sides rounded ; the pro- mesonotum 

 and scutellum closely, rugosely reticulated; the mesonotum with 2 distinct furrows on 

 the apical half bounding the centre; the metathorax more widely and regularly reticulated; 

 in the centre of the base of the metanotum is an area, longer than wide, rounded at 

 the apex, smooth and with a keel down its centre. Tegulte closely punctured. First 

 abdominal segment short, cup-shaped, broad; its sides at the base forming stout teeth; 

 the 2nd segment is not much longer than it is wide at the apex; below at the base it 

 broadly rounded; the segments are all closely punctured, the last more strongly than the 

 others and with the basal half raised; the hypopygium is less strongly punctured and is 

 smooth in the centre at the base. The basal ventral segment untoothed. 



Mutilla artotaiia, sp. nov. 



Black, the metathorax red, the outer edge of the tegula? white, the apex more 

 broadly white, tinged with rufous; the calcaria white, wings hyaline, tinged with viola- 



