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Closely allied to M. perse, but the third segment only is banded 

 with white, and the two patches on the second one are of different 

 shape and size. 



MUTILLA ACRISIONE. 



Female. Black, thorax ferruginous red, spots and bands on the 

 dorsal part of the abdomen sub-flavescent ; head scrobiculate, hardly 

 pubescent, broader than the thorax, rounded laterally behind, eyes 

 large ; thorax not much broader at base than at apex, but with the 

 median lateral part ernarginate, apical part sub-arcuate with the 

 anterior angles sharp, deeply scrobiculate with the intervals longi- 

 tudinally carinate in the median part, but wavy, lateral margins 

 sub-serrate, declivity sloping ; abdomen sub-sessile, second segment 

 covered with deep, closely set, elongate punctures, and having two 

 supra-lateral, rounded, flavescent patches situated at the same dis- 

 tance from base and apex, third and fourth segments clothed with 

 a band of sub-flavescent hairs ; ventral carina of the first segment 

 trifid; tibiae with a double series of spines. Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



MUTILLA NIOBE. 



Female. Black, with the upper part of the thorax red, antennae, 

 tibiae, and tarsi sub-rufescent, femora piceous black, spots and bands 

 on the abdomen silvery white ; head very broad, quadrate, with the 

 base sub-arcuate, twice as broad as the thorax, eyes moderate, set 

 forward, very closely and finely punctured and hardly pubescent ; 

 thorax short, truncate at apex, parallel laterally and not emarginate, 

 perpendicularly declivous behind and covered with moderately broad 

 and closely set punctures, outer margins of the declivity sub-serrulate ; 

 abdomen sub-sessile, pyriform, second segment closely punctured and 

 having two small supra-lateral, transverse patches, third, fourth, and 

 fifth segments clothed with a band of white hairs ; ventral carina of 

 first segment truncate and sub-aculeate behind ; tibiae with a double 

 series of spines. Length 7^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



MUTILLA BELLONA. 



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

 nous in the middle of the disk ; abdominal bands and spots slightly 

 flavescent ; head very broad, posterior angles a little rounded, eyes 

 set much forward, twice as broad as the median part of the thorax, 

 closely striolate and briefly pubescent ; thorax slightly arcuate at 

 base with the angle sharp and with a short lateral spine curving 

 slightly backwards, outer sides deeply emarginate, base not much 



