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Male. Black, with a faint bluish tinge on the abdomen, prothorax 

 and mesothorax, tegulae and scutellum ferruginous red ; wings infus- 

 cate, subhyaline at base : head as broad as the thorax, narrow, posterior 

 angles not very sharp, deeply aciculate, very pubescent, mesothorax 

 without any apparent longitudinal groove, scutellum slightly grooved 

 longitudinally in the middle ; abdomen subpyriform, acutely dented 

 on each side of the base, finely and closely punctured with the 

 intervals smooth, apical part of the first and second segments 

 narrowly fringed with a white pubescence ; ventral carina of first 

 segment truncate and sharp at both ends; tibiae without spines. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Bred by Dr. H. Brauns, from the cocoons of a Clythrid beetle 

 found in the nest of an ant, Cremastog aster perinyucyi, Emery. 

 Dr. Brauns writes that the two sexes he submitted to me were not 

 bred out of cocoons from the same nest, but that there can be no 

 doubt as to the identity of the two sexes. 



MUTILLA LEDA. 



Female. Head, antennae, thorax, and legs brick-red and clothed 

 with a very dense flavescent pubescence, turning sometimes to 

 silvery white, abdomen black, patch and bands flavescent or 

 white ; head as broad as the thorax, with the eyes large, and the 

 space behind the eyes very small and rounded, rugose, but the 

 rugosity concealed by a thick pubescence ; thorax truncate at apex, 

 gradually tapering from there to the posterior declivity where it is 

 narrower by one-third, outer sides nearly straight but a little 

 emarginate in the anterior part, and each end of the eniargination 

 slightly tuberculate, declivity nearly perpendicular, disk coarsely 

 punctured and very pubescent, upper margin of the declivity with 

 .a median, moderately conspicuous tubercle ; abdomen subsessile, or 

 rather slightly pedunculate, ovate, second joint covered with elongate 

 punctures with raised intervals, fringed with an apical narrow 

 pubescent white or sub-flavescent band, and having an elongato- 

 quadrate patch in the middle of the base connected with the apical 

 band of the first segment, the third joint is clothed with a pubescent 

 band, and the fourth and fifth have also a short, lateral band of a 

 similar pubescence ; tibiae with a double series of spines. Length 

 4-7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, Prince Albert). 



MUTILLA ANNA. 



Female. Head, antennae, thorax, tibiae, and tarsi rufescent, 

 .abdomen black, with flavescent band and spot, head and thorax 



