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median part, and the lateral ridges as well as the sides and upper 

 margin of the declivity not serrulate ; it is covered with deep, closely 

 set, and broad round punctures, and clothed with a long black 

 villosity ; first abdominal segment moderately long, distinctly 

 petiolate, very rugose, the apical band moderately broad, second 

 segment covered with very long punctures, closely set, deep, and 

 with the intervals raised and sub-undulate, band on the third seg- 

 ment a little narrower than that on the second, fourth segment w r ith 

 a small indistinct lateral patch ; the pubescent bands are yellowish 

 instead of white ; the tibiae have one sub-median spine, the tarsi are 

 slightly rufescent ; ventral carina of first segment sharp, truncate at 

 base. Length 8| 9 rnm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Prince Albert). 



MUTILLA LATONA. 



Female. Head piceous black, w r ith an oblong dark ferruginous 

 red patch in the posterior part, and a smaller and elongato-quad- 

 rate one in front of the eyes, antennas, tibiae, and tarsi rufescent, 

 femora piceous red, abdomen black, clothed with long, greyish 

 villous hairs ; head a little broader than the thorax, sub-quadrate, 

 with the posterior angles slightly rounded, covered with deep, elon- 

 gate, closely set punctures, the intervals of which are sub-striolate 

 between the eyes, hardly pubescent, and not thickly pilose ; thorax 

 truncate in front, with the anterior margin hardly sinuate but 

 carinate and distinctly serrulate, outer sides nearly straight for one- 

 third of the length and with a not very deep incision, which, owing 

 to the anterior angle being sharp, gives it the appearance of being 

 tridentate, narrowed from there in the shape of a broadly truncate 

 cone as far as the posterior declivity, which is moderately abrupt, 

 the outer margins are distinctly serrate, and the whole of the upper 

 part is covered with distinct, closely set foveae ; first joint of abdomen 

 moderately long, red, and dentate laterally at base, very roughly 

 shagreened, the apical band moderately broad and sub-cuneiform in 

 the middle, punctures of the second segment long, narrow, and with 

 the intervals smooth and sub-carinate, the band moderately narrow, 

 the band on the third segment is of the same width, and occasionally 

 rubbed off in the centre, the fourth and fifth segments have also a 

 lateral whitish elongate patch ; ventral carina of first segment sharp, 

 truncate at apex and slightly sinuate in the middle ; tibiae with a 

 double series of spines. Length 8-104- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Uiten- 

 hage), Transvaal (Klerksdorp). 



