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flavescent pubescence and hairs ; thorax truncate at apex, deeply 

 constricted laterally at about the median part, the posterior part 

 produced laterally in a broad triangle, and one-third broader than 

 the apex, the three dorsal sutures usually separating the prothorax 

 and mesothorax and the scutellum are very well denned, and the 

 part that would correspond to the scutellum bears a recurved spine, 

 the posterior declivity is perpendicular and has a median longi- 

 tudinal raised line, the disk is rugose and moderately pubescent ; 

 abdomen elongato-ovate, first segment closely punctulate, nearly 

 sessile, sharply dentate on each side of the base, which is reddish, 

 as broad at apex as the base of the second one, and with a fringe of 

 not very dense, whitish hairs, apical part of the second segment 

 with a narrow pubescent band, fifth and sixth segments with a 

 white erect pubescence ; tibiae without spines. Length 4i mm. 



At first I thought that the only example I got was a wingless 

 male, but I think it is a female with strong male characters. I have 

 not material enough to elucidate that point to my satisfaction. It 

 will be perhaps necessary to create a genus for it. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth) ; presented by Dr. H. 

 Brauns. 



MUTILLA EVADNE. 



Female. Head and abdomen black, thorax red, antennae and 

 legs rufescent ; head as broad as the base of the thorax, a little 

 attenuate diagonally behind the eyes, base straight, roughly 

 shagreened and thickly covered with a greyish pubescence ; thorax 

 subparallel, truncate at base, with the outer angle tuberculiform and 

 the sides carinate and with four sharp teeth, the fourth one situated 

 at the top of the declivity, which is very abrupt, the upper part is 

 scrobiculate, slightly setulose, and very briefly pubescent ; abdomen 

 subsessile, ovoid, second segment very closely punctured, the punc- 

 tures finer in the centre than at the base and on the sides and 

 having a narrow, apical, silky white band, fourth and fifth segments 

 covered with long, greyish white hairs ; tibiae without spines. 

 Length 4-| mm. 



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



MUTILLA ALTH^A. 



Female. Head, antennas, and legs brownish red, thorax ferrugi- 

 nous red, abdomen black ; head very little broader than the thorax, 

 slightly attenuate behind the eyes, which are elongato-ovate, nearly 

 truncate at base, striolate, and having on the vertex a long, median, 

 smooth raised line; thorax truncate at apex and at the posterior 



