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sloping from near the base ; tegulse red, wings fumose, infuscate at 

 tip ; first abdominal segment pedunculate, nodose at apex, nearly as 

 long as the second one and planted on the top of it, both the first and 

 second segments are closely punctured with the intervals slightly 

 raised ; tibiae not spinose. Length 8 mm. 



A close ally of M. egeria, from which it differs by the colour of the 

 thorax. 



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



MUTILLA CLELIA. 



<? Head black, deeply and closely scrobiculate, clothed with 

 long black setae interspersed with a few greyish ones, nearly twice 

 as broad as long on the vertex, with the sides parallel and the base 

 nearly straight ; eyes large, not emarginate, situated in the anterior 

 angle of the vertex and reaching the median part of the outer side, 

 the central part of the vertex has a small protuberance on which are 

 situated the ocelli ; thorax red on the upper part and sides and nearly 

 hexagonal, prothorax truncate at apex, a little broader than the 

 head, mesothorax convex, not grooved longitudinally, scutellum very 

 prominent, rounded behind and deeply emarginate in the centre, 

 metathorax sub-quadrate, posterior angles nearly straight ; it is 

 roughly scrobiculate, and clothed with not very dense but long black 

 hairs turning to white on the edge of the scutellum and on the sides ; 

 abdominal segments closely foveolate, basal segment nodose, with the 

 pedunculate part very short, implanted on the second one which is 

 nearly orbicular, apical part of the basal and second segments with 

 a dense, moderately narrow band of silvery white pubescence, third 

 segment entirely white ; legs clothed with long greyish-white hairs, 

 tibiae not spinose ; wings hyaline at base for about one-third of the 

 length, the rest fuscous ; ventral carina of first segment sharp, trun- 

 cate and sharply aculeate at base. Length 14 mm. 



Eesembles M. mnemosidcs $ , Per., but the thorax is much more 

 angular laterally in the middle, and is totally red, and the third 

 segment is clothed with a white pubescent band. 



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



The three species following belong to a very distinct group with 

 black thorax, of which no ? is known. They are somewhat alike, 

 and the females will very likely prove to be also very similar to one 



