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MUTILLA AGLAE. 



Female. Black, with the thorax red, or occasionally black and 

 piceous red in the middle of the dorsal part ; legs piceous black, 

 abdominal bands sub-flavescent ; head broader than the thorax at 

 apex, straight laterally and not rounder in the posterior angle, 

 roughly shagreened, densely pubescent and pilose, eyes set forward ; 

 thorax long, nearly straight at apex, narrowed gradually from the 

 anterior angle to the perpendicular declivity, where it is narrower 

 by one-third than at apex, deeply emarginate laterally past the median 

 part, roughly punctured, w 7 ith the intervals raised and irregularly 

 longitudinal ; it is densely pubescent and the hairs long and greyish ; 

 abdomen oblong, first joint sharply dentate at base, and nearly as 

 broad at apex as the second joint in the middle, roughly punctured 

 and having a moderately broad apical band, second joint very little 

 ampliate in the middle, covered with deep, elongated, closely set 

 punctures and fringed at apex with a narrow pubescent band, third 

 segment clothed with a similar but broader band, apical joint also 

 pubescent ; ventral carina of first segment very small ; tarsi with a 

 double series of short spines. Length 6-6^ mm. 



Male. Black, w y ith the prothorax and mesothorax and the tegulae 

 reddish. Head twice as broad as long, closely punctured, pubescent ; 

 mesothorax with two median grooves reaching very short of the 

 anterior suture, scutellum not much raised, metathorax rounded 

 laterally behind and having a broad median groove \vith edges 

 raised and smooth ; abdomen similar to that of the female, but 

 with the second joint more ampliated, a little less coarsely punc- 

 tured, and with the band 011 the third joint much narrower ; ventral 

 carina of first segment dentate at base ; tibiae non-spinose ; wings 

 hyaline, sub-infuscate at tip. Length 5f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Bred by Dr. H. Brauns from the nest of an undetermined species 

 of Ceratina. 



MUTILLA ILYTHIA. 



Female. Head, sternum, the basal joints of antennae, and the 

 abdomen black, the dorsal part of the thorax red, antennae, tibiae, 

 and tarsi rufescent, femora piceous red ; villous hairs greyish and 

 moderately dense ; head deeply and closely punctured, the punctures 

 broad and the intervals striolate in the middle, transverse, not much 

 rounded in the posterior angles, and if anything slightly broader 

 than the thorax at its widest part ; thorax truncate in the anterior 

 part, which is carinate, nearly straight laterally for one-third of the 



