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interval between the sinuations serrulate, the posterior part with 

 three distinct teeth, sides of the declivity which is quite perpendicular, 

 also serrate, upper part deeply and closely foveolate ; abdomen sessile, 

 posterior part of first segment transverse, sides straight, segments 

 rugulose, densely hairy and pubescent ; the yellowish bands on the 

 first and second segments are narrow, and that on the third segment 

 broader by one-half ; tibiae with a double row of spines ; ventral 

 carina of the first segment short, but projecting and truncate at tip, 

 second segment broadly scooped from side to side and with a short, 

 median longitudinal ridge in the apical part. Length 16^-17 mm. 



Hale. Black, with the mesothorax and scutellum red, tegulae red ; 

 abdomen with a cyaneous tinge ; head twice as broad as long on the 

 vertex, eyes slightly emarginate ; mesothorax with two indistinct 

 longitudinal grooves, metathorax quadrangular ; abdomen sessile, 

 finely punctured, bands as in the female ; tibiaa spinose ; ventral 

 carina of first segment produced in a long, bifid process, second 

 segment scooped and with a sharp median tooth at the apical margin ; 

 wings hyaline at base, fuscous brown at apex, anterior margin of 

 fore wings deeper brown at about the median part. Length 14 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Cape Division, Port Elizabeth). 



I found one male and two females drowned in a pool of water on 

 the floor of a dried watercourse. 



MUTILLA BEKENICE. 



Female. Head, antennae, abdomen, and legs black ; body covered 

 with very long greyish hairs ; abdominal bands yellow ; head scro- 

 biculate and striolate in the middle, clothed with a very brief, silky 

 flavescent patch, not quite as broad as the thorax at apex and 

 with the posterior angles much rounded ; thorax truncate in front, 

 quadrate in the anterior part for about one-fourth of the length, 

 slightly sinuate but subparallel from there to the posterior declivity 

 which is quite perpendicular, dorsal part deeply foveate with the 

 fovese broad and the intervals sub-carinate, lateral margins hardly 

 serrulate except in the posterior declivity where it is more noticeable ; 

 abdomen sub-sessile, ovate, first segment with a lateral spine on each 

 side, roughly punctured, the yellow silky band broad and triangular, 

 second segment covered with very long, narrow punctures with sub- 

 carinate intervals, the apical band narrow but reduced to a mere line 

 in the central part, band on the third joint narrow but of the same 

 width throughout, the other three apical joints with a lateral white 

 pubescence ; tibiaa with a double series of spines. Length 10-11 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Beaufort West). 



