210 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERIT EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



pressed silvery pubescence on the lower part of the mesopleurae. Calcaria white, tinged 

 with fulvous. 5- 



Length 17 mm. 



Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto, 1000 1300 m., September. 



Head large, wider than the thorax; the temples more than twice the length of the 

 eyes, which are comparatively small, oval. Vertex and front coarsely longitudinally 

 punctured-striated-reticulaled. Upper part of thorax coarsely longitudinally reticulated, the 

 keels stout, clearly defined; the edges of the apical slope reticulated; meso- and meta- 

 pleurffi smooth, punctured round the edges. 



Named after the late JOSEPH THOMSON, so well known for his travels in Tropical 



Africa. 



Mutilla semyra, sp. nov. 



Black, the pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum dull red, the tegulae a paler red; 

 the sides of the apex of the 1st abdominal segment and of the 2nd and the 3rd entirely 

 covered with white depressed pubescence, the dorsal abdominal segments sparsely with 

 black, its ventral segment at the apex, the head, pleurae and apex of metanotum covered 

 with white hair. Wings fuscous violaceous, the basal fourth of both hyaline. Ventral 

 keel straight, untoothed; the 2nd with 3 large, blunt tubercles on the apex, tf. 



Length 14 mm. 



Mem low lands, January. 



Head and thorax closely rugosely punctured, the punctures running into reticula- 

 tions; the metanolum closely rugosely reticulated, short, transverse, with the sides broadly 

 rounded; the basal central area small, smooth, wider than long, horse-shoe shaped. Base 

 of metapleurse smooth, the rest reticulated. Tegulae large, their apex extending beyond 

 the wing, hyaline, bone-colored. Basal segment of abdomen short, broadly rounded, the 

 2nd longer than it is wide at the apex. Pygidium with a slight, oval depression on the 

 basal half; it is wider than long, bluntly rounded, and wide at the apex; the hypyo- 

 pygium punctured at the base, the apex smooth and depressed. The central tubercle on 

 the 2nd ventral segment is longer and more distinct than the lateral; it rises gradually 

 from the base to the apex. 



Allied to M. liumeralis, SIGH, and RAD. That has only 2 small tubercles on the 

 2nd ventral segment and there is a "sillon profond" between the ocelli and the antennae, 

 there being none in the present species. 



Genus DoUchomutitta. 



Dolickomiitilla tubcrculicollis, n. sp. 



Black, the thorax dull brick-red, the lower part of the melapleurae covered with 

 depressed while pubescence, a transverse oval mark on the sides of the 2nd abdominal 

 segment, and a more or less interrupted band on the 3rd segment above the apex of 

 the 2nd ventral and the whole of the 3rd covered with white hair ; the hair on the sides 



