60 Annals of the SoutJi African Museum. 



MUTILLA PUEPUBATA, Smith, 



New Species of Hymenoptera, p. 190. 



Female. Head black, with a transverse ferruginous patch extend- 

 ing along the base and cheeks, thorax red, abdomen black, legs 

 black or piceous, antennae black, with the scape rufescent ; head 

 very closely punctured, sub-striolate on the vertex, a little broader 

 than the apex of the thorax and equal in width to the basal part, 

 vertical part short behind the eyes, posterior outer angles slightly 

 rounded ; thorax produced diagonally backward at apex, sinuate 

 laterally from a short distance of the anterior angle to about two- 

 thirds of the length, and with the apical part of the sinuation sharp, 

 sub-dentate, broadening gradually from the end of the lateral sinua- 

 tion to the apical declivity, where it is about one-fourth broader than 

 at apex, and rounded at the declivity, which is quite perpendicular ; 

 it is covered \vith closely set, not very deep foveae, the intervals of 

 which are raised in the posterior part and on the declivity in the 

 shape of very small tubercles ; hairs on head and thorax short, 

 blackish ; abdomen sub-sessile, first joint with a lateral spine at base, 

 clothed with long dense greyish white hairs ; apical band silky white, 

 narrow, second segment covered with short and smooth closely set, 

 raised lines, apical band not broad, and interrupted in the centre in 

 the shape of a V, band on the third segment entire and slightly 

 wider than the preceding one, sixth joint clothed with white 

 pubescent hairs ; tibiae with a double row of spines ; ventral 

 carina of first segment truncate at apex and incised in the centre. 

 Length 7^-10 mm. 



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

 Natal (teste Smith). 



Captured in copula by Dr. Brauns. 



MUTILLA ANTIOPE. 



Female. Head, antennae, thorax, first abdominal joint, and legs 

 ferruginous red, dorsal part of abdomen deeply infuscate, abdominal 

 part rufescent; head and thorax finely shagreened, very briefly 

 pubescent and hardly pilose, the first-named part quadrate, much 

 produced behind the eyes, very little rounded laterally in the posterior 

 part, broader than the apical part of the thorax but equal in width to 

 the base ; thorax truncate at base, parallel laterally for one-half of the 

 length, gradually ampliated from there to the angle of the posterior 

 declivity, where it is broader than the apex by nearly one-fourth, 

 declivity perpendicular with the upper margin distinctly denticulate, 

 and the sides serrulate, lateral margins of thorax a little indented at 



