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clothed with a whitish slightly flavescent pubescence and with hardly 

 any erect hairs ; thorax elongate, very nearly parallel, truncate at 

 both ends with the angles sharp, outer sides pluri-dentate, edge of 

 the posterior declivity with a spine on each side and one in the 

 centre ; it is foveolato-punctate and clothed with a very short, sub- 

 flavescent pubescence, with the sides, and especially the declivous 

 part, set with long, flavescent hairs; abdomen sessile, pyriform, basal 

 segment very nearly as broad at apex as the base of the second, 

 punctulate, second segment as broad as long and very closely 

 punctured ; the three apical segments, principally the last, are 

 clothed with greyish white hairs which do not, however, form bands ; 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae with a single series of spines, spurs 

 whitish ; pygidial area finely striolate. Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker. 



Easily distinguished by the shape of the head and prothorax from 

 all the South African species having a single median white spot on 

 the second abdominal segment. 



MUTILLA ANDROMACHE. 



$ . Black, covered with black hairs, greyish on the sides, the 

 frontal part of the head and the legs, second and third abdominal 

 segments with a slightly flavescent pubescent band fringing the 

 former and covering the latter but broadly interrupted in the centre ; 

 head deeply and closely pitted, a little narrower than the apical part 

 of the thorax, nearly truncate behind, but with the posterior angles 

 rounded, eyes large, reaching beyond the median part of the sides ; 

 thorax nearly straight at apex, a little ampliated diagonally from the 

 outer angle to about one-third of the length, where it is slightly 

 aculeate, a little attenuate from there to the posterior declivity which 

 is very abrupt and where it is about one-fifth narrower than the 

 apical part, not serrulate or emarginate laterally ; it is foveolate with 

 the intervals sharp, those in the centre of the anterior part are less 

 wavy, and sharper ; abdomen sessile, first and second joint some- 

 what regularly strigillate ; the former has no white pubescent 

 patch and the band edging the second segment is nearly as broad 

 as the one covering the dorsal surface of the third ; intermediate 

 tibiae with a double series of spines, posterior ones with a single row, 

 spurs white. Length 10 mm. 



Allied to M. horrida, Sm. ; the shape of the head, thorax, and 

 abdomen is similar, but there is no white patch on the first 



