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white pubescence ; head transverse, one-third broader than long on 

 the vertex, deeply punctulato-scrobiculate ; eyes large, deeply 

 emarginate, and reaching a little past the median part of the sides ; 

 thorax and scutelmm deeply foveolate, prothorax broad, divided from 

 the thorax by a very deep sulcus, mesothorax moderately convex, 

 scutellum convex, broader than long, sloping, slightly rounded 

 laterally behind and hardly emarginate, metathorax quadrangular 

 but with the posterior angles a little rounded ; abdomen with the 

 first and second segments covered with closely set, round punctures, 

 basal joint nodose, briefly pedunculate, two-thirds narrower at apex 

 than the second segment at its widest part, the latter round, as broad 

 as long ; ventral carina of first segment, sharply aculeate, almost 

 sub-dentiform at tip ; legs covered with white hairs, tibiae not spinose, 

 spurs of the intermediate and posterior legs white ; wings slightly 

 infuscate from base to apex. Length 8 mm. 



This species should come in the vicinity of M. maja. 



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



MTTTILLA DAPHNE. 



<? . Black, with the prothorax and the upper part of the mesothorax 

 and the scutellum red, clothed with greyish hairs turning to silvery 

 white in the frontal part of the head and on the scutellum, apical 

 part of the first and second segments fringed with a band of silvery- 

 white pubescence, third segment entirely clothed with the same 

 white pubescence ; head transverse, nearly twice as wide as long on 

 the vertex, sides straight, outer angle moderately sharp, eyes large, 

 not emarginate, reaching a little beyond the median part of the outer 

 sides ; thorax foveolate, the foveolae very closely set, mesothorax with 

 a median raised line ; tegulae very large and elongate, wings funiose 

 from a short distance of the base, scutellum raised, rounded, meta- 

 thorax deeply foveato-scrobiculate, a little attenuate behind but with 

 the sides not quite rounded, and very declivous ; basal abdominal 

 segment short, sharply bi-dentate at base, ampliated from the base, 

 as broad at apex as the base of the second segment, which looks as 

 if it were the continuation of it, is globose, and one-third broader than 

 long, both are deeply foveate, the foveae being smaller in the central 

 part of the second segment ; ventral carina laminate, the lamina 

 moderately short and truncate at both ends ; tibias not spinose, 

 spurs infuscate. Length 12 mm. 



Not unlike at first sight M. clclia, but the thorax is not so 



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