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of first segment sharply conical at each end, or deeply notched in the 

 centre; tihiae not spinose. Length 10 mm. 

 Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker. 



MUTILLA TOMYRIS. 



3 . Black, with a red patch on the vertex of the head and the 

 pro- and mesothorax red, clothed with greyish and brown hairs, basal 

 joint of abdomen with a lateral whitish patch, third segment with a 

 lateral white band; head very roughly foveolate, almost scrobiculate, 

 sub-quadrate, eyes large, deeply emarginate, reaching to about the 

 median part of the sides ; thorax closely foveolato-punctate, scu- 

 tellum and metathorax scrobiculate, tegulae red, wings pale brown, 

 shape of the scutellum similar to that of M. dido ; abdomen sessile, 

 first abdominal segment near straight laterally and not so broad 

 at apex as the base of the second one, and both covered with deep, 

 elongate punctures, separated by irregular, carinated intervals ; 

 ventral carina of first segment not quite straight, and sharp at tip 

 at the base, no ventral carina on second segment ; tibiae with one or 

 two spines. Length 12 mm. 



Hab. South Africa (no exact locality). 



MUTILLA CTA'MENEIS. 



$ . Black, clothed with dense long greyish and black hairs, thorax 

 red, first basal segment with a patch of white pubescence on each 

 side midway between the centre and the outer side, apical part of 

 second segment and the whole of third segment with a white band 

 broadly interrupted in the centre ; head quadrate, scrobiculate, 

 clothed with white and black hairs, eyes large, deeply emarginate, 

 reaching beyond the median part of the outer sides ; thorax irregu- 

 larly foveolate, metathorax scrobiculate, scutellum of the same shape 

 as the preceding species, and fringed with somewhat dense, long, 

 greyish-white hairs ; tegulae red, elongate, wings fuscous brown, 

 hyaline at base, metathorax parallel, abruptly truncate, outer sides 

 sharp, distinctly carinate from the median part to the angle which 

 is distinctly aculeate and projecting, the perpendicular declivity is 

 very dark brown, nearly fuscous ; abdomen sessile, basal joint deeply 

 and closely punctured except at the apex, which is quite smooth, a 

 little narrower than the base of the second joint, second segment 

 longer than wide by one-fourth, and covered with deep, elongate 

 foveolate punctures, with the intervals irregular and raised ; ventral 



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