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outer sides nearly straight from a short distance from the apical 

 angle, carinate, not sinuate nor dentate, declivity abrupt, upper part 

 covered with deep, closely set punctures ; abdomen sub-sessile, 

 second segment covered with small, elongate punctures, median patch 

 ovate and equidistant from base and apex, bands on the first and second 

 segments narrow, that on the third segment covering it entirely ; 

 ventral carina of the first segment bi-incised, truncate and sharp at 

 apex, the four intermediate segments piceous red underneath, 

 narrowly fringed with whitish hairs ; tibiae with a few short spines 

 difficult to detect. Length 5J mm. 



Hab. Natal (Malvern). 



Eesembles M. prcedatrix, Sm., but differs in the colour of the 

 head and thorax, which are respectively black and dark ferruginous 

 in pradatrix ; the thorax is more attenuated behind and less 

 coarsely punctured, the abdomen is more ovate, and the spines on 

 the tibiae are hardly discernible instead of being very conspicuous. 



MUTILLA MELPOMENE. 



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

 silvery white ; head as broad as the apical part of the thorax, very 

 deeply pitted, slightly pubescent, eyes large, space behind the eyes 

 small, base straight or nearly so ; thorax very slightly sloping on 

 each side at apex, gradually ampliated from there to the base, where 

 it is one-fourth wider with the outer sides slightly emarginate at 

 about the median part, posterior declivity perpendicular, disc sub- 

 alveolate with the intervals forming two series of very short 

 tubercles above the declivity, the outer margins of which are 

 serrulate ; abdomen sub-sessile, nearly pyriform, second segment 

 covered with slightly wavy and interrupted raised lines, basal joint 

 w r ith an apical fringe of white pubescent hairs, second one with a 

 median sub-elongate white patch equidistant from base and apex, 

 third and fourth segment clothed with a pubescent band ; ventral 

 carina of first segment truncate and sharp at both ends, and slightly 

 sinuate in the middle ; tibiae spinose. Length 6i mm. 



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



MUTILLA ALCYONE. 



Female. Head, antennae, legs, and abdomen black, dorsal part of 

 thorax dark ferruginous, head and thorax clothed with a very brief, 

 sub-flavescent pubescence, body with black and white hairs ; head 

 quadrate with the posterior angles sharp, as broad as the base of the 

 thorax, irregularly foveate ; thorax sloping much on each side at 

 apex, nearly straight laterally, but slightly emarginate for half the 



