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MUTILLA ELMIRA. 



$ . Black, with the prothorax red, one apical silky white patch in 

 the median part of the first abdominal segment, a supra-lateral one 

 on each side of the second segment as well as an apical one in the 

 middle, and a band of the same white pubescence on the third, 

 clothed with greyish-white hairs, black on the head, which is large, 

 as broad as long on the vertex, one-third wider than the thorax at 

 apex, eyes not large, not lateral, gense projecting much underneath, 

 nearly straight at base, deeply foveate, but with the foveae closely 

 set, clothed with a whitish, somewhat dense pubescence ; thorax 

 short, nearly straight at apex, gradually attenuated laterally from 

 apex to base where it is about one-third narrower, hardly emarginate 

 laterally, covered with longitudinal carinse, nearly parallel in the 

 centre, more wavy laterally and sharp from the very edge of the 

 apex to that of the declivity where they form a distinct serration, 

 but the outer margin is serrulate right to the end of the posterior 

 declivity ; abdomen sessile, pyriform, basal joint sharply dentate on 

 each side, second joint a little broader than long, and both strigillate; 

 pygidium also distinctly but more closely strigillate ; ventral carina 

 of first segment short, slanting at apex ; tibiae with a double series 

 of spines, spurs black. Length 12 mm. 



Eesembles in general appearance and also in markings M. agave, 

 Per., but it is easily differentiated by the shape of the thorax which 

 is more attenuated behind, and covered with more regularly longitu- 

 dinal and also sharper carinae. 



Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



(MALES.) 



MUTILLA DICE. 



$ . Black, with the thorax dull red, clothed with long greyish 

 hairs, denser on the edge of all the abdominal segments where they 

 form a distinct fringe but no band ; head quadrate, nearly as broad 

 as long on the vertex with the sides straight, eyes large, set in the 

 anterior angle of the head, bulging, not emarginate and reaching only 

 to about one-third of the length of the sides, it is very closely punc- 

 tured, and the punctures are deep ; thorax red, deeply foveolato- 

 punctate with the metathorax foveate, mesothorax with two dorsal 

 longitudinal grooves, scutellum raised, rounded, metathorax abruptly 



