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intermediate and posterior tibiae with only one median spine on each 

 side of the outer groove. Length 7-104- mm. 



Male. Similar to the female in sculpture and colour, except that 

 the metathorax is black, and is also more broadly foveate than in the 

 anterior part ; the shape and size of the abdomen and head are 

 similar, the carina of the first abdominal segment identical ; the 

 eyes are not emarginate and the intermediate and posterior legs are 

 not spinose outwardly ; wings hyaline at base, infuscate in the 

 median part, and fuscous at tip. Length 9-10 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Port Elizabeth). 



MUTILLA BEROE. 



Female. Black, set with long, moderately dense hairs, black on 

 the upper part, greyish white underneath, whole thorax ferruginous 

 red ; head sub-quadrate behind and a little attenuate in front of the 

 eyes, one-fourth less broad than the apex of the thorax, closely 

 scrobiculate, eyes ovate, prominent ; thorax slightly rounded in the 

 anterior margin, with the outer sides ampliated sub-diagonally as far 

 as the median part, which has a somewhat sharp but not much 

 developed tubercle and diagonally narrowed from there towards the 

 apex, which is truncate and narrower than the base by one-third 

 and than the median part by one-half of the width ; it is closely and 

 equally scrobiculate all over, the median tubercle is preceded by two 

 blunt, elongated ones, and the sides of the hind part are sub-serrate ; 

 first abdominal segment aculeate laterally, moderately long, petiolate, 

 the petiole long, one-fourth the width of the second segment, covered 

 alike with very much elongated, narrow and shallow foveas with 

 the intervals smooth, narrow and sharp, apical part with a broad 

 silky white band covering a third of the petiole, second segment with 

 a narrow band of similar texture produced in a triangle in the centre, 

 outer side of the third segment with a short white patch, continued 

 in the under part in a band, as is also the one on the second seg- 

 ment ; intermediate and posterior tibiae with two single spines 

 outwardly ; abdominal carina produced in a sharp tooth at the apex. 

 Length 15 mm. 



Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



MUTILLA SYRINX. 



Female. Slender, totally black, clothed with a brief, faintly 

 w y hite pubescence, hairs moderately dense, black ; head broader 

 somewhat than the apical part of the thorax, shagreened all 

 over, eyes large, very convex, posterior part of the head 

 a little narrowed laterally behind the eyes, posterior angles 



