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laterally ; the mesothorax has apparently no longitudinal groove ; 

 wings subhyaline at base, infuscate at tip ; eyes not eniarginate ; 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae without spines. 



Closely allied to the male of M. capicola, but the head, which is 

 nearly as long as broad, instead of being broader than long has the 

 posterior angles rounded ; the whole of the upper part of the thorax 

 is bright red instead of the metathorax being black, and the punc- 

 tures on the abdomen are in both sexes shallower and narrower, and 

 the intervals only very slightly raised. Length 8 mm. 



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



MUTILLA EURYDICE. 



Female. Slender, head and thorax black, the latter with a 

 hexagonal reddish patch on the dorsal part covering two-thirds of 

 the disk, basal part of the first and third segments and nearly the 

 whole of the second one bright red, shining ; legs and antennae 

 piceous ; head very declivous in the anterior part, eyes long, very 

 convex, posterior angles rounded ; it is slightly broader than the 

 apical part of the thorax, clothed, as is also the thorax, with a 

 greyish decumbent pubescence and a few hairs, and covered with 

 closely set, moderately deep punctures; thorax long, gradually dilated 

 laterally from the anterior angle to about one-third of the length, 

 where it is bituberculated, and gradually narrowed from there to the 

 declivity, where it is only one-fourth of the width of the median 

 part, deeply scrobiculate, declivity sloping and also scrobiculate, but 

 less broadly; abdomen petiolate, first segment deeply pitted and 

 with a central elongate silky white patch on the node, second seg- 

 ment long, oblong, very little pubescent, shining, red, narrowly 

 edged with black at apex, and with a small, median ovate, apical 

 white patch, third segment with a broad white band ; ventral carina 

 long, dentiform at base, second segment with a median ridge dentiform 

 at tip and reaching to about one-third of the length and a longer but 

 equally sharp carina on each side ; legs slender, nearly glabrous, 

 tibitfi without spines, femora very long. Length 10|-12| mm. 

 Hab. Damaraland (Walfish Bay). 



MUTILLA DANAE. 



Female. Head and thorax very dark ferruginous ; dorsal part of 

 thorax ferruginous red ; abdomen red, with the apical part of the 

 second one and the four following black ; antennae sub-rufescent, 

 legs piceous red, basal joint of fore tarsi with three long, outward 

 spines, second one with one ; head elongate-quadrate with eyes 

 large and protruding, space between the eye and the basal part 



