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Both sexes resemble M. purpurata, Sm., the J is distinguished 

 by the thorax more parallel, not attenuated in the anterior part and 

 less emarginate at about the median part, the elongated punctures 

 on the second segment are also much more pronounced, and the 

 abdomen is a little more sessile ; the $ resembles very much that 

 of M. purpurata, but the whole thorax is red, the metathorax is a 

 little more constricted at the base, the punctures on the second 

 segment are not so confluent, and the apical white band of the 

 second segment is hardly interrupted in the centre. 



Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



(FEMALES.) 



MUTILLA CELIMENE, 



Plate VIII., fig. 29. 



? . Ferruginous red, abdomen black with the exception of the first 

 segment which is also red, second abdominal segment with a basal 

 median flavescent ovate round patch and two lateral and one median 

 arranged transversely near the apical part, the three apical segments 

 are banded with a sub-flavescent whitish pubescence ; head rounded, 

 smaller than the thorax, eyes large, lateral, reaching further than the 

 median part of the outer sides which are very much rounded ; it is 

 covered with a flavescent pubescence interspersed with a few rigid 

 hairs, and is very rugose ; thorax very irregularly foveolate, nearly 

 straight at apex, slightly rounded laterally near the anterior angle, 

 of nearly equal width from the anterior part to about the median 

 part where it is very slightly incised, and from there slightly but 

 gradually attenuated as far as the posterior declivity which bears 

 a small but distinct sharp tubercle in the middle, and where it is 

 slightly narrower than at the apical part ; the sides are not serrulate, 

 and it is covered with a flavescent pubescence; abdomen briefly 

 sub-pedunculate, basal segment fringed with dense silky hairs 

 forming almost a band, the second segment is a little longer than 

 broad, covered with long, foveate punctures hidden by a dense black 

 pubescence, from which emerge some black and greyish hairs, the 

 pygidium is denuded and distinctly strigillate longitudinally ; tibiae 

 with a double series of spines, spurs white. Length 7 mm. 



Allied to M. anna, Per., from which it differs by the shape of the 

 thorax, which is not quite so attenuate behind, and by the arrange- 

 ment of the white abdominal spots and bands which approximate 

 very much that of M. tcttensis, Gerst. 



Hab. Mozambique (Louren9o Marques). G. A. K. Marshall. 



