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black, wings with a chalybeate tinge ; basal segment of abdomen 

 petiolate, moderately long, one-third narrower at apex than the base 

 of the second segment, the latter is orbicular, and both are covered 

 with deep elongate punctures with strigillate intervals, the other 

 segments are closely punctured ; the ventral carina of the first seg- 

 ment is very distinctly laminate at the base, and the second segment 

 which is deeply and irregularly pitted has a sharp median carina 

 reaching from base to apex ; tibiae without spines. Length 14 mm. 



Allied to M. godcfredi, Sich. and Ead., and M. acidalia, Per. 



Hab. Zambesia (Lesapi Eiver). G. A. K. Marshall. 



MUTILLA AUTINOE. 



$ . Totally black, with long black hairs except on the prothorax, 

 which is clothed with densely set decumbent golden yellow hairs, 

 the hairs on the vertex of the head are intermingled with fulvous 

 ones ; shape and sculpture of the head similar to that of M . cory- 

 phasia, eyes not emarginate ; pro- and mesothorax closely and 

 deeply foveolato-punctate, mesothorax with two distinct longitudinal 

 median grooves and produced behind on each side in a dentiform 

 process with carinate edges, scutellum raised, sub-aculeate behind, 

 tegulaB black, w T ings fumose and with a slight chalybeate tinge, meta- 

 thorax scrobiculate, sub-quadrate with the angles rounded ; first 

 abdominal segment short, nodose, distinctly bi-deiitate at base, one- 

 fourth narrower at apex than the base of the second segment which 

 is rounded, very convex, and as long as broad, the first segment and 

 the second for two-thirds of the length are deeply pitted with the 

 intervals raised, there is no trace of any pubescent white band on 

 any of the abdominal segments ; the carina on the first and second 

 segment of the abdomen is similar to that of M. coryphasia. 



Allied to M. acidalia, Per., and M. melicerta, Sm. ; the shape of 

 the abdomen is nearer to that of the last-named species. 



MUTILLA ABTEMISIA. 



$ . Black, clothed with dense black hairs, third abdominal segment 

 covered with a silky white pubescent band narrowly interrupted 

 longitudinally in the centre, the last two abdominal segments covered 

 with a white pubescence ; head transverse, roughly punctured on 

 the vertex, straight laterally, eyes large, reaching the median part of 

 the outer sides, emarginate, frontal parts with a few fuscous hairs ; 

 thorax roughly punctured, mesothorax much raised, and with two 



