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declivity, parallel, carinate laterally, and having on each side five or 

 six sharp tubercles, bearing each a small fascicle of hairs, it is hardly 

 convex, covered with irregular, wavy raised lines, the declivity is 

 perpendicular, serrulate laterally, and has on the upper part a lateral 

 sharp spine and also a median one, the latter a little less developed 

 than the lateral one ; abdomen sub-sessile, ovate, first segment 

 short, fringed with a narrow, silky white band, second segment very 

 finely and densely aciculate, and having also a narrow apical fringe 

 of white hairs, third segment entirely clothed with a white band ; 

 tibige with a double row of three spines ; ventral cariua of the first 

 joint subaculeate at both ends. Length 5-6^ mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



MUTILLA ALCIS. 



Female. Head piceous black, antennae and legs reddish brown, 

 thorax dark ferruginous, abdomen black ; head slightly broader than 

 the thorax at its widest part, slightly attenuate diagonally from 

 behind the eyes to the basal angle, which is somewhat rounded, 

 covered with deep but not closely set punctures, hardly pubescent 

 and not very bristly ; thorax sloping very diagonally at apex, the 

 angle sharp and projecting a little, slightly ampliate from there to 

 about one-fourth of the length, and produced from there in the 

 shape of a truncate pyramid to the top of the declivity, which is 

 sloping and hardly serrulate, the sides are slightly tri-dentate in 

 the anterior part and not very distinctly serrulate from there to the 

 top of the declivity ; abdomen ovate, subsessile, second segment 

 covered with closely set, elongated punctures, the white posterior 

 margin slightly broader than the one on the third segment ; ventral 

 cariiia of the first segment truncate at tip ; tibias spinose. Length 



5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



MUTILLA BAUCIS. 



Female. Head, antennas, legs, sternum, and abdomen black ; 

 head as broad as the apex of the thorax, nearly twice as broad 

 as long on the vertex, not much produced behind the eyes 

 which are large, outer angles of base slightly rounded, deeply and 

 closely scrobiculate, pilose, but hardly pubescent ; thorax truncate 

 at apex, outer sides sub-carinate, slightly ampliate diagonally from 

 the outer angle to the median part, which is aculeate, and gradually 

 narrowed from there to the top of the declivity, which is sub-trun- 

 cate, and where it is one-third narrower than at apex, the anterior 

 part has a very faint incision between the apical angle and the 



