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length, nearly abruptly truncate behind, with the sides as well as 

 the upper margin of the declivity serrate, the latter with a median 

 truncate flattened tubercle ; the disk is covered with irregular 

 fovese with raised intervals which form a transverse wavy ridge 

 above the margin of the declivity ; abdomen subsessile, basal joint 

 with an apical whitish patch, second one closely striolate, and 

 having exactly in the centre an ovate patch, third and fourth seg- 

 ments clothed with a white band ; ventral carina truncate and sharp 

 at both ends, intermediate segments fringed with white ; tibiae 

 spinose. Length 10411 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Griqua- 

 land West). 



I suspect this species to be the female of M. exaltata, Sm. 



MUTILLA HECUBA. 



Female. Head, antennae, femora, and abdomen black, the an- 

 tsnnal tubercles, a transverse posterior band on the head, and the 

 tibiae rufescent, thorax red, body with long black hairs ; head and 

 thorax clothed with a very short, sub-flavescent pubescence ; abdo- 

 minal bands and spot slightly flavescent ; head as broad as the 

 thorax, quadrate with the posterior angles sharp and the base 

 slightly arcuate, very rugose and with some sub-carinate intervals in 

 the central part ; thorax nearly parallel, but slightly incised laterally 

 in the anterior part, not sinuate, as broad at base as at apex, apical 

 part very slightly sloping on each side, declivity perpendicular, disk 

 covered with deep, moderately broad punctures, declivity also broadly 

 punctured, serrulate on the upper margin, which has also a median 

 truncate tubercle ; abdomen subsessile, shagreened, second segment 

 covered with dense, closely set, elongate punctures, apical band on 

 the first segment indistinct in some examples, the median patch on 

 the second is ovate and equidistant from base or apex, and there is 

 besides on each side of it a triangular patch of slightly flavescent 

 hairs, the apex of which nearly coalesces with the median part, and 

 which consists of scattered hairs not dense enough to form a macule, 

 the apical part of the segment has no band, but the third and fourth 

 have a broad one ; the ventral carina is a little emarginate, the four 

 intermediate segments are thickly fringed with silky white hairs, 

 and the tibiae are spinose. Length 8-J S-f mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (? Worcester, Port Elizabeth). 



MUTILLA CIRCE. 



Female. Black, with the anterior part of the thorax pale orange- 

 yellow, antennae rufescent, tibiae and tarsi also rufescent, femora 



