206 SJOSTEDTS KIL1MANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



the vertex and front longitudinal; it is wider than the thorax, which is more than twice 

 longer than wide, is transverse behind, rounded in front, slightly roundly contracted be- 

 hind the middle, there being a small, conical tooth at the apex of the widened apical 

 part; there is a longish triangular reticulated part on the upper basal portion of the pro- 

 pleurae; the rest is smooth, as is also the mesopleurse and the metapleime. Apex of 1st 

 abdominal segment with a broad not very closely punctured belt; the 2nd is irregularly 

 covered with longish, interlacing punctures. There is a distinct, oblique tooth behind 

 the middle of the 1st ventral segment. Tibial spines short and thick; the calcaria white. 

 Allied to M. ceplmis, SM. 



Mutilla transversonotata, sp. nov. 



Black, the thorax, except the lower part of the meso- and metapleurse, red, a broad 

 band of pale golden pubescence on the apex of the 1st abdominal segment laterally, a 

 smaller one on either side of the middle of the 2nd and a broad one on the sides of 

 the 3rd (the black central part one third of their width) and the pygidium densely cov- 

 ered with longer, whiter pubescence; the hair on the upper part of the body black, ex- 

 cept on the occiput, cheeks, base and apex of thorax, base of abdomen above and on 

 the ventral segments, where it is white. Head large, wider than the thorax, the temples 

 long, more than twice the length of the eyes, broadly, roundly dilated, the occiput trans- 

 verse, with the sides broadly rounded. Base of thorax rounded, the apex transverse, 

 with the sides rounded; the thorax is more than twice longer than wide; the basal half 

 of the thorax is a little wider than the apical and has a small tooth at the base and 

 apex of the broad basal part. Basal ventral segment straight, untoothed. The sculpture 

 of pygidium is hidden by the dense hair covering. $. 



Length 15 mm. 



Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto, cultivated zone, February. 



Head stoutly, longitudinally reticulated. Eyes small, oval, shorter than the malar 

 space. Mandibles stoutly bidentate, the 2nd tooth oblique, triangular. The temples are 

 more strongly punctured than the vertex, the punctures forming coarse reticulations. Top 

 of thorax, except the pronotum and apex of metanotum, strongly reticulated, the reticula- 

 tions becoming larger towards the apex, and on the top of the metanotum they are 

 wider. Propleurse strongly punctured, the mesopleuree smooth, the apex of metapleurae 

 weakly irregularly reticulated. Basal segment of the abdomen stoutly, obliquely project- 

 ing laterally at the base; the 2nd is closely, somewhat strongly longitudinally striated, 

 the stride interlacing. 



Allied to M. Parki, it having the same form of the head and thorax ; Parki may 

 be known by the mesonotum being much more closely and finely reticulated, by the 

 pleura? being broadly black, especially behind, by the metapleurse at the apex being much 

 more strongly, regularly and broadly reticulated, the apical slope of the metanotum, too, 

 being more regularly and closely reticulated, and there is a distinct tooth on the basal 

 ventral segment. 



