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short, outer angle rounded ; it is thickly clothed with a greyish 

 pubescence ; thorax long, truncate at apex, diagonal laterally from 

 the outer angle to a short distance from the middle, the 

 ampliation ending in a blunt tubercle, gradually narrowed from 

 there to the declivity, where it is one-fourth narrower than at the 

 tip, the outer margins are subcarinate, and the disk deeply foveolate ; 

 abdomen elongato-ovate, petiolate, first segment with a by no means 

 dense apical fringe of slightly flavescent hairs, the second segment 

 is covered with broad foveae, the fourth and fifth segments are 

 clothed with a flavescent band ; the ventral carina of the first seg- 

 ment is emarginate in the middle and dentate at apex, second joint 

 with a short, basal median carina ; tibiae spinose. Length 8^- mm. 



flab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



In colour this species approximates M. imitatrix, Sm., but is at 

 once distinguished by the shape of the thorax, which is straight 

 laterally, deeply emarginate in the middle, and equally broad at base 

 and apex in M. imitatrix ; in M. clanae the second segment is 

 foveate, instead of being very closely punctured. 



MUTILLA POLYXENE. 



Female. Head black ; thorax, abdomen, legs and the six basal 

 joints of antennae light testaceous, it is entirely clothed with a silky 

 decumbent golden pubescence, and with a few scattered pallid hairs ; 

 head twice as wide as long on the vertex, eyes very long, reaching 

 from near the vertex to the point of insertion of the antennae, 

 oblongo-ovate and convex, a little wider than the thorax, which is 

 subparallel, slightly emarginate laterally for about one-third of the 

 length, with the anterior and posterior part of equal width, carinate 

 and serrulate, posterior declivity not abrupt and with a small, sharp 

 tooth in the centre of the upper part ; abdomen pyriform, segments 

 aciculate, pubescent, the pubescence thicker on the apical margin of 

 all the segments, pygidium black ; tibiae without spines. Length 

 3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Hopetown). 



Judging from the size of the eyes and also the colour this species 

 is probably nocturnal, and might prove to be the female of M. semele 

 or M. thisbe. 



MUTILLA EEIGONE. 



Female. Black, with the thorax red and the antennae and legs 

 fuscous red, the abdominal bands white ; head a little broader than 

 the apex of the thorax, eyes very large, occupying nearly the whole 

 of the sides, the three ocelli very distinct ; it is clothed with a dense 



