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segment bi-dentate in the centre, the five abdominal segments 

 thickly fringed with greyish hairs underneath ; tibiae with a double 

 series of distant spines. Length 7-11 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Seymour), Zambesia (Umfuli Eiver), Natal 

 (Malvern). 



MUTILLA CALYPSO. 



Female. Black, with the whole thorax bright red, spots and bands 

 of abdomen white ; head slightly attenuate behind, and very little 

 wider than the thorax, clothed with a dense flavescent pubescence, 

 and deeply and closely punctured, eyes large ; thorax short, slightly 

 sloping on each side at apex, straight laterally and slightly denticu- 

 late near the base, deeply foveate, abruptly truncate and with two or 

 three transverse series of short tubercles along the base produced 

 by the sharp intervals of the foveas ; abdomen sub-sessile, sub-pyri- 

 form, second joint finely striolate and having two lateral ovate patches 

 placed nearer to the apex than to the base, third joint clothed with 

 a band of white hairs broadly interrupted in the centre, fourth joint 

 also clothed with a similar band which is, however, much less dense, 

 but this may be accidental ; ventral carina of first joint tri-incised ; 

 tibiae with a few rudimentary spines. Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



MUTILLA PENELOPE. 



Female. Black, with the dorsal part of the thorax dark ferrugi- 

 nous ; abdominal spots and bands silvery white ; head rounded 

 laterally behind, with the eyes large and the space between the eye 

 and the base small ; it is closely foveate, very briefly pubescent and 

 not broader than the prothorax ; the latter is elongate, narrow, very 

 sloping on each side at base, dilated triangularly laterally in the 

 anterior part, sub-parallel from there, but slightly emarginate, deeply 

 and irregularly foveate with the intervals of the foveae conical on the 

 outer sides as well as at the base, declivity slightly sloping and with 

 six distinct, slightly undulating caringe ; abdomen sub-sessile and 

 sub-pyriform, second segment covered with deep, very elongate 

 punctures, the intervals of which form very distinct raised lines in 

 the centre of the discoidal part, and having two ovate sub-median 

 whitish patches a little nearer to the apex than to the base, third 

 and fourth segments clothed with a white band broadly interrupted in 

 the centre, apical segment clothed with greyish white hairs ; ventral 

 carina of first segment tri-dentate ; tibiae with a single series of spines. 

 Length 9-j mm. 



Hab. Zarnbesia (Hartley). 



