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covered with a dense decumbent flavescent pubescence ; head very 

 rugose, rounded laterally behind the eyes which are large ; thorax 

 truncate at tip, gradually ampliated laterally to about the median 

 part and gradually narrowed from there to the declivity which is 

 sloping, outer margins bi-incised, and sub-tuberculate at the upper 

 angle of the declivity, the upper margin of which is serrulate and 

 has a small but distinct tubercle in the middle and is preceded by 

 a transverse, narrow, not well-defined groove, disk covered with 

 irregular, deep, confluent punctures ; abdomen sub-petiolate, basal 

 segment short, nodose, and with a tooth on each side, second 

 segment striolate, median patch basal, connected with the apical 

 band on the first segment, parallel or nearly so, and reaching about 

 one-third of the length, the band on the apical part and also that of 

 the third segment are broadly interrupted on each side of the central 

 part, forming thus three patches ; the four intermediate segments 

 have a ventral fringe of flavescent hairs, ventral carina of first 

 segment truncate at both ends. Length 9 mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



MUTILLA CETO. 



Female. Black, with the thorax red, spot and bands of abdomen 

 slightly flavescent, head and thorax covered with a dense flavescent 

 pubescence; head closely punctured, as broad as the thorax, eyes 

 large, space behind the eyes short, straight ; thorax moderately 

 long, parallel, outer margins hardly sinuate, posterior declivity per- 

 pendicular, disk and declivity covered with deep, closely set, large 

 punctures ; abdomen sub-sessile, deeply and closely punctured, basal 

 joint hairy but without any pubescent fringe, second one with a 

 basal, ovate patch touching the apical margin, and an apical, 

 pubescent band slightly dilated in the centre, third segment clothed 

 with a similar band ; ventral carina long, bi-sinuate ; tibiae with a 

 double series of spines. Length 4-5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth) ; presented by Dr. Brauns. 



MUTILLA IRIS. 



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

 moderately dense hairs, abdominal bands and spot silky white ; 

 head roughly shagreened, very briefly pubescent, eyes large, head as 

 broad as the thorax, projecting little behind the eyes, posterior 

 angles not much rounded ; thorax long, slender, sloping on each 

 side at apex, gradually attenuate from the apical outer angle to the 

 base where it is narrower than at the apex by nearly one-third, 



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