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carina deeply emarginate in the centre, not truncate at apex, and 

 produced in a short, sharp spine at base, second segment with a 

 ventral slender ridge ; tibiae not spinose. Length 13 mm. 



Closely allied to M. eunomia, differs in the colour of the wings, the 

 more angulate and more projecting posterior angles of the metathorax, 

 the different shape of the ventral carina of the first segment, the 

 presence of a median ventral carina on the second segment, and the 

 distinct interruption of the two dorsal abdominal white pubescent 

 bands. 



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



MUTILLA EUNOMIA. 



3 . Black, clothed with long dense black hairs ; pro- and meso- 

 thorax, scutellum, and tegulee red, first abdominal segment with a 

 silky white apical band narrowly interrupted in the centre, second 

 segment also with a white apical band slightly interrupted in the 

 centre, third segment with a broad, not interrupted band ; sculpture 

 of the head and thorax similar to that of If. cleopatra, but the 

 metathorax is not quite so parallel, owing to the outer apical part 

 being slightly ampliated and produced outwardly, and the angle itself 

 not being sharp and projecting ; the shape and sculpture of the 

 abdomen are similar, but the band on third segment is hardly 

 if at all interrupted, and the ventral carina of the first segment 

 is acutely toothed in the middle and emarginate near the apex. 

 Length 13 mm. 



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



MUTILLA CLEOPATRA. 



g . Black, clothed with long dense black hairs, pro- and meso- 

 thorax dark ferruginous, with the scutellum nearly black, apical part 

 of the basal and second abdominal segments and the whole of the 

 third with a white band broadly interrupted longitudinally in the 

 centre ; head quadrate, nearly twice as broad as long on the vertex, 

 foveolate, frontal part clothed with greyish hairs with longer black 

 ones intermixed, eyes very large, deeply emarginate, and reaching 

 beyond the median part of the outer sides, which are straight ; thorax 

 elongate, closely foveolate with the metathorax nearly scrobiculate, 

 prothorax truncate at the apex, very little rounded laterally ; meso- 

 thorax without any longitudinal groove ; tegulae red, wings fumose, 

 and with a darker elongate spot near the stigma; scutellum trans- 



