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bands pale-yellow, that on the first segment broad, the apical one 

 on the second joint slightly triangular in the centre, third, fourth, 

 and fifth joints entirely clothed, apical part of the sixth denuded ; 

 tibiae with a double series of spines ; ventral carina moderately 

 long and slightly bi-incised. Length 10 mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland). 



MUTILLA OlIPHALE. 



Female. Head black, and vertex ferruginous, thorax ferruginous 

 red, abdomen, antennae, and legs black, basal joint of antennas 

 piceous red, body clothed with black and flavescent hairs, abdominal 

 bands and median patch golden-yellow ; head as broad as the thorax, 

 truncate behind, roughly shagreened in the anterior part, striolate 

 behind ; thorax long, subparallel, the apical part sloping on each side, 

 outer sides slightly bisinuate with the median part sub-aculeate, basal 

 part very slightly broader than the apical one, declivity perpendicular, 

 dorsal part covered with deep, elongate, narrow foveae, with wavy, 

 sub-carinate intervals ; abdomen not quite sub-petiolate, pyriform, 

 segments finely shagreened, second one covered with closely set, 

 sub-elongate punctures, apical part of basal segment fringed with 

 yellow hairs, median dorsal patch on second segment narrow, 

 elongato-ovate, beginning close to the base and reaching short of the 

 middle, apical bands of second and third segments nearly equal in 

 width ; ventral carina curved, dentiform at apex ; all five apical 

 segments fringed underneath with a yellowish pubescence ; tibias 

 spinose. Length 12 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Malvern). 



MUTILLA THYONE. 



Female. Black, with the thorax red for two-thirds of the length, 

 base of antennas and legs piceous ; head aciculate, as broad as 

 the thorax, eyes moderately large, head slightly narrowed diagonally 

 behind ; thorax truncate at apex with the angles somewhat sharp, 

 nearly straight laterally but a little narrower at base than at apex, 

 declivous behind, closely punctured, the punctures on the declivity 

 broader and deeper than on the disk, outer margins subcarinate, 

 neither dentate nor serrulate ; abdomen subsessile, oblong, owing 

 to the second segment not being ampliate in the middle, finely 

 aciculate, second segment with a small, ovate median patch situated 

 close to the base and having a moderately broad fringe of silky white 

 pubescence, apical joint also slightly pubescent ; ventral carina 

 of first segment slightly bideutate ; tibiae without spines. Length 

 6|- mm. 



