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there to the posterior declivity where it is half the width of the apex, 

 anterior and lateral margins verrucose, that of the posterior declivity 

 serrulate laterally, clothed with a somewhat dense flavescent pubes- 

 cence, and very closely foveolato-punctate ; abdomen elongate, 

 sessile, first joint sharply dentate at base, very briefly stalked, 

 much ampliated from near the base, somewhat transverse owing to 

 the sides being straight, second joint oblongo-ovate, and both covered 

 with deep and closely set rough punctures ; tibiae with a double 

 series of spines, spurs rufescent. Length 7 mm. 



Closely allied to M. aglae, Per. ; the sculpture, markings, and 

 shape of abdomen are nearly identical, but the shape of the pro- 

 thorax is different ; it is not so elongate, is more parallel for nearly 

 half the length, and then attenuated from there only towards the 

 base, the outer margin is distinctly verrucose, which is not the case 

 in M. aglae. 



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



MUTILLA DUNBBODIA, 



Plate VIII., tig. 17. 



5 . Black, with the two basal joints of antennae reddish, prothorax 

 red, second segment of abdomen with two median silky yellow 

 patches equi-distant from the centre and the outer sides, third, 

 fourth, and fifth clothed with a slightly flavescent band, last seg- 

 ment rufescent, faintly striolate on the upper part ; head nearly twice 

 as broad as long on the vertex, eyes nearly lateral but with the 

 genae slightly projecting underneath, base sinuate in the centre, 

 antennal tubercles well developed ; it is slightly wider than the pro- 

 thorax, and covered with very fine, closely set punctures ; thorax 

 with the apical margin angular on each side of the neck and with 

 the outer angle very sharp, diagonal from the outer apical angle to 

 about the median part, where it is deeply emarginate in a semi- 

 circular way above the angle of the posterior declivity and there 

 slightly narrower than at apex, the margins are distinctly carinate, 

 and the whole surface is covered with moderately broad punctures, 

 and clothed with a fine, decumbent, flavescent pubescence ; abdomen 

 sessile, second segment globose and covered with very closely set, 

 round punctures ; the legs are slightly rufescent, with the femora 

 and sometimes the joints of antennae, with the exception of the 

 two basal ones, piceous-red ; tibiae with a double series of spines, 

 spurs white. Length 64- mm. 



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



