198 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJABO-MEEU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



Mutilla leptacantha, sp. nov. 



Black, the upper part of the thorax, except the centre of the apical slope below, 

 the upper half of the mesopleura? (more broadly on the basal half) and the upper third 

 of the metapleura?, red; a spot on the centre of the apex of the 1st abdominal segment, 

 extending on to the base of the 2nd, a band on the centre of its apex, not extending 

 to the outer edges, and the whole of the 3rd, covered with pale golden pubescence ; the 

 sides of the head, base of abdomen, the apices of its ventral segments and the sides 

 of the pygidium, much more densely, covered with white hair, as are also the legs, 

 which have the tibial spurs white, and their spines black, longish and 8 in number in 

 a double row. Head a little wider than the thorax, the temples not much longer than 

 the eyes, broadly rounded behind. The apex of the antennal scape and the pedicle 

 dark red; the 3rd joint is not quite so long as the following 2 united, the scape shining, 

 sparsely covered with white hair; the flagellum thick. Basal half of mandibles red, the 

 apex becoming gradually narrowed. Palpi dark fuscous, almost black. Head closely 

 rugosely punctured, the punctures interlacing. Thorax not quite twice longer than wide, 

 the sides above straight, crenulated, the meso- and upper part of metanotum somewhat 

 strongly rugosely reticulated-punctured, the apical half more strongly than the basal; the 

 apex above ends in 5 longish spines, the outer distant from the outer edge. Pleurae 

 and apical slope smooth, the latter obscurely punctured round the edges. Base of ab- 

 domen broad, stoutly obliquely toothed laterally at the base; the basal ventral segment 

 straight, neither keeled nor toothed. Pygidium closely, finely punctured, except at the 

 base. $. 



Length 7 mm. - Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, 1300 1900 m. May. 



Mutilla mouochroma, sp. nov. 



Black, an irregularly oval spot of white pubescence near the middle of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment, the 3rd covered entirely with similar pubescence; the basal segment, 

 the apical, and the apices of the ventral segments with long white hair. Head in front 

 wider than the thorax, behind narrower than it; the temples long, longer than the eyes, 

 obliquely narrowed, the occiput almost transverse; the vertex closely, somewhat strongly 

 longitudinally striated, and with some thinner transverse stria 3 , which are continued on 

 to the front, where they form close reticulations; the outer orbits are longitudinally reti- 

 culated, and are, as is also the occiput, distinctly margined. Thorax more than twice 

 longer than wide, distinctly narrowed in front, behind bluntly rounded; the back strongly 

 closely longitudinally striated, the striae more or less interlacing, especially towards the 

 apex, the apical slope with a distinct, straight, oblique slope, and somewhat widely 

 longitudinally reticulated, the reticulations becoming more open and broken towards the 

 apex; the sides are parallel, not narrowed in the middle, they are armed with 11 teeth 

 on the upper edge; the basal 2 are short, blunt and united together at the base, the 

 following 2 are longish, curved and sharp; the 4th small, tubercule-like, the 5th broad, 

 slightly incised above, the others short and sharp. Pleura? smooth. Basal segment of 



