208 SJUSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



rowed towards the apex; grantella may be separated by the head not being wider, but 

 narrower than the thorax. 



Mutiila albicauda, sp. nov. 



Black, the thorax, except the lower part of the pro- and mesopleura and the lower 

 half of the metapleune, red, a broad patch of silvery pubescence on the sides of the 

 basal abdominal segment, one of the same size and colour on eitherside of the centre 

 of the 3rd, a broad band on the 4th, commencing at the inner end of the palch on the 

 3rd, and the last segment above covered with long white hair, as are also the apices of 

 the 3rd to 5th ventral narrowly. Ventral keel on 1st segment toothed at the base, the 

 rest straight. Thorax clearly narrower than the head, twice longer than wide, rounded 

 in front, truncated behind, slightly narrowed from the middle, where there is a blunt, 

 short tooth. The 2nd joint of the flagellum is as long as the following 2 united. $. 



Length 10 mm. 



Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto, cultural zone, April. 



Head coarsely longitudinally reticulated; the temples straight, longer than the eyes; 

 the occiput transverse, with the sides rounded. Apical tooth of mandibles bluntly rounded. 

 Thorax above coarsely reticulated; the reticulations, if anything, larger and rounder on 

 the apical slope. Pleura smooth, irregularly punctured round the top. Basal slope of 

 1st abdominal segment coarsely rugosely punctured; the 2nd longitudinally striated, the 

 strise interwining. Pygidium somewhat strongly punctured; the segment below covered with 

 long black hair. The 2nd abdominal segment becomes gradually narrowed towards the 

 apex; below it is somewhat steeply obliquely sloped at the base. 



Mutiila leucoura, sp. nov. 



Black, the top of the thorax and upper part of the pleura dark red; a patch of 

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

 eitherside of the middle of the 2nd and a broader one - - broader than the black central 

 part on the sides of the 3rd; the pygidium densely covered with long white hair; the 

 ventral segments fringed with white hair; the keel on basal segment with a bluntly 

 rounded, clearly separated tooth on the apex. Thorax not quite twice longer than wide, 

 the base rounded, the apex truncated; it is slightly narrowed from behind the middle; 

 at the apex of the basal part is a small tooth. $. 



Length 8 mm. 



Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto, 13001900 m., November. 



Head large, slightly, but distinctly wider than the thorax; the temples clearly longer 

 than the eyes above, the occiput transverse; coarsely reticulated; the thorax above is 

 more widely reticulated all over; base of propleura with a row of longish punctures; the 

 meso- and metapleura smooth. Tibial and tarsal spines stout, black; the calcaria 

 white. 



