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not much rounded ; thorax long, slender, hexagonal, very much 

 attenuate in the posterior part, not tuberculate in the median part 

 laterally, declivous behind and covered with closely set, rough 

 but small punctures ; abdomen petiolate, the node of the first 

 segment roughly shagreened and having an 'apical, silky white 

 patch, second segment elongato-ovate, covered with closely set, 

 deep, non-confluent punctures and having at apex a narrow band 

 of white ; ventral carina emarginate in the centre and acute at both 

 ends ; intermediate segments not fringed with greyish or whitish 

 hairs underneath ; tibiae with one submedian spine. Length 10 mm. 



As slender as M. eurydice, and not unlike in general facies, but 

 the colour is very different, and there are no ventral carinae on the 

 second segment. 



Hob. Natal (Estcourt). 



MUTILLA GALANTHIS. 



Female. Head, antennae, thorax, tibias, and tarsi dark ferruginous 

 red ; head slightly attenuate laterally behind the eyes, but with the 

 sides straight and the posterior margin slightly sinuate, as broad as 

 the base of the prothorax, very rugose and briefly pilose, eyes sub- 

 ovate, prominent ; prothorax nearly straight at base, slightly ampli- 

 ated laterally from the apical angle to one-third of the length, and 

 slightly narrowed from there to the posterior declivity which is very 

 abrupt, hardly convex, deeply scrobiculate with the intervals of the 

 metathorax tuberculiform, outer sides angular at about the third part 

 of the length ; abdomen covered with long, greyish hairs, first seg- 

 ment moderately long, strongly petiolate, briefly spinose laterally at 

 base, rugose and with a moderately broad, apical, silky white patch, 

 second segment ovate, covered with shallow, narrow, elongated 

 punctures with the intervals slightly raised, apical margin with a 

 narrow white band, third segment almost entirely covered by a 

 similar white band ; outer groove of the intermediate and posterior 

 legs with a double row of spines ; abdominal carina of first segment 

 dentate at tip. 



Allied to the preceding species owing to the shape of the 

 abdomen, the first segment of which is very distinctly petiolate ; 

 the shape of the prothorax is different, and the third segment of the 

 abdomen has a white, very short lateral band, wanting in M. 

 capicola; the intermediate and posterior legs have a double series of 

 spines, instead of a solitary one. Length 5 mm. 



Male. Similar in shape and sculpture to the female ; the colour 

 of the thorax is brighter red, and the base of the first abdominal seg- 

 ment is also red ; but the metathorax is not tuberculate even 



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