74 Annals of the South African Museum. 



MUTILLA ANDROMEDA. 



Female. Black, with the upper part of the thorax ferruginous 

 red ; abdominal maculae and band white, but occasionally orange- 

 yellow or sub-flavescent ; head as broad as the thorax, rounded 

 laterally behind, eyes small, leaving much space behind, deeply 

 scrobiculate on the vertex, clothed with a thin, sub-fiavescent 

 pubescence and set with long black hairs ; thorax nearly straight 

 at apex, incised at about one-fourth of the length, narrower from 

 there to the base and nearly parallel but sub-tuberculate at some 

 distance from the posterior declivity, which is abrupt and serrulate 

 all round, the disk is covered with irregular, deep foveae with sharp 

 intervals ; abdomen ovate, sub-sessile, second segment striolate, the 

 basal one with a median, triangular patch, second one with an 

 ovate spot on each side placed at an equal distance from the sides 

 and the median part, central apical part with a small, sub-quadrate 

 spot, third segment entirely covered by a broad band ; ventral 

 carina short, truncate and aculeate at apex, second segment with 

 a moderately deep impression, the base divided by a raised line on 

 each side of the base underneath, intermediate joints fringed with 

 greyish hairs ; tibiae with a double series of spines. Length 

 9-15 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, Calvinia). 



In the example from Calvinia the thorax is redder than in the 

 typical form, and the abdominal spots and band rich orange-yellow. 



MUTILLA ABSINOE. 



Female. Black, with the thorax red. 



The description of M. andromeda might serve for this species, but 

 apart from the colour of the thorax, which is totally red instead of 

 being ferruginous in the dorsal part only, the thorax is narrower 

 and longer, the intervals of the foveae are more longitudinal, those 

 on the hind part are raised in the shape of small conical tubercles, 

 and the edge of the declivity is denticulate ; the abdomen is more 

 elongato-ovate, the second segment more deeply striolate, and with 

 the intervals more raised. Length 11 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Klerksdorp). 



MUTILLA HECATE. 



Female. Black, with the thorax ferruginous red ; head scro- 

 biculate, clothed with a very brief, whitish pubescence, very abun- 

 dant on the basal joint of antennae, as broad as the thorax, rounded 



