220 SJOSTEDTS KIL1MANDJARO-MEKU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



down the apical three-fourths smooth, the hypopygium strongly punctured except round 

 the edges; the central part is thickly covered with long black hair. Tegukc smooth, their 

 outer edge bearing black depressed hair; the apex depressed, fuscous. 



Mutilla pilidecorata, sp. nov. 



Black, the upper part of the head, mesonotum and scutellum covered with longish 

 black pubescence, the pubescence on the post-scutellum, the rest of the head, thorax, on 

 the abdomen and legs white, the base of abdomen sparsely covered with long white 

 hair; the 3rd and fourth abdominal segments, except in the centre, covered with de- 

 pressed whitish pile; the apex of the antennal scape and the pedicle below, with a tuft 

 of long white hair; the keel on the basal ventral segment roundly broadly curved, un- 

 toothed; the pygidium with a broad raised smooth central part, widened towards the 

 apex; the sides and base of (he hypopygium broadly raised. Wings smoky violaceous, 

 the base to near the transverse basal nervure hyaline; the 2nd abscissa of radius not 

 much longer than the 3rd; the hind wings have the basal third hyaline, tf. 



Length 12 mm. 



Kilimandjaro : Kibonoto, 13001900 in. May. 



Antennal scape below covered .with long silvery hair; the 3rd joint widened gra- 

 dually towards the apex, about one quarter longer than the 4th. Head as wide as the 

 thorax, the temples roundly narrowed; the cheeks, malar space, sides of face and oral 

 region densely covered with longish white pubescence; the centre of the face with a 

 smooth, bare, shining, bordered depression, which becomes gradually roundly narrowed 

 from the bottom to the top. The front, vertex strongly rugosely, the temples less strongly 

 punctured. Thorax about 3 times longer than wide, the base and apex rounded; the 

 pronotum coarsely reticulated; the mesonotum less strongly and more closely rugosely 

 punctured; the scutellum flatly rounded, more closely rugosely punctured. The metanotum 

 reticulated; the basal central area not reaching to the top of the apical slope; the basal 

 half widened, obliquely narrowed at the apex. Basal two abdominal segments punctured, 

 the 2nd weakly and more sparsely and with a large smooth space in the centre. 



Mutilla microphatiia, sp. nov. 



Black, densely covered with longish white hair; the basal 3 abdominal segments 

 with broad bands of white pubescence on their apices, the basal ventral segment straight, 

 broad, untoothed; wings fuscous violaceous, the basal abscissa of radius three times the 

 length of the 2nd, the second cubital cellule being much smaller than usual, narrowed 

 in front, where it is half the width of the hinder part, which receives the recurrent 

 nervure at the apex of the basal third; the 1st and 2nd transverse cubital nervures are 

 roundly curved; the recurrent is received in the middle of the cellule. The 3rd and 4th 

 joints of the antennae are equal in length, tf. 



Length 10 mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonolo, 1000 1200 m., April. 



