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tibiae with a double series of spines, spurs whitish, pygidial area 

 strigillate longitudinally. Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). Dr. H. Brauns. 



MUTILLA DEIANIEA, 



Plate VIII., fig. 22. 



5 . Black, with the antennas and legs rufescent, head with a 

 rufescent patch on the vertex, thorax red, abdomen with two round 

 flavescent patches on the second segment, equi - distant from the 

 median part and from the outer margin, and situated a little nearer 

 to the base than to the apex, third, fourth, and fifth segments banded 

 with a whitish, slightly flavescent pubescence, apical segment reddish, 

 finely strigillate longitudinally ; head broader than the thorax, nearly 

 twice as broad as long on the vertex, eyes lateral, not reaching quite 

 the median part of the outer sides which are straight, and deeply and 

 closely punctured ; the punctures are elongate, and the whole surface 

 is clothed with a very short sub-flavescent pubescence; the size of the 

 rufescent patch varies, and the whole of the basal part is sometimes 

 rufescent ; thorax sub-parallel, moderately short, slightly sloping 

 diagonally on each side at apex, emarginate laterally at about the 

 median part, outer margins slightly serrulate ; it is clothed with a 

 by no means dense flavescent pubescence and a few long flavescent 

 hairs, and is closely foveolato-punctate ; abdomen pyriform, second 

 segment covered with closely set punctures, slightly elongate in the 

 anterior part ; ventral carina short, sharply aculeate at apex ; tibiae 

 with a double series of spines, spurs white. Length 6^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). Rev. J. A. O'Neil. 



Allied to M. acrisione, P6r., but smaller; the head and the pro- 

 thorax especially are much less roughly foveolate, and the intervals 

 of the latter are not longitudinally carinate ; in M. acrisione only the 

 third and fourth abdominal segments have a white band. 



MUTILLA DUCETIS. 



? . Black ; antennae, with the exception of the basal joint which is 

 black, slightly rufescent, thorax red, abdomen with all the segments 

 fringed with a narrow silky white band ; head slightly narrower than 

 the apical part of the thorax, closely foveolato-punctate, very briefly 

 pubescent, eyes small, set much forward, genae projecting under- 

 neath, outer sides rounded behind ; thorax truncate at apex, parallel 

 or very nearly so for half the length, and gradually narrowed from 



