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Hub. ? Cape Colony ; Zambesia (Urnfuli Biver). 

 In the specimen from Zambesia the thorax is more distinctly 

 carinate longitudinally in the dorsal part. 



MUTILLA CYDIPPE. 



Female. Black, with a broad patch on the head, and the thorax 

 dark ferruginous, spots and bands on the abdomen golden-yellow ; 

 head scrobiculate, very slightly pubescent, a little broader than the 

 thorax, ampliated laterally behind the eyes, which are small and 

 set forward, posterior angles rounded, base straight ; antennas 

 piceous red ; thorax truncate in the median part of the apex but 

 with the angles sloping, straight laterally, and hardly narrower at 

 base than at apex, perpendicularly declivous behind and covered 

 with deep, irregular, closely set foveae ; outer margins not serrulate ; 

 abdomen sessile, basal part of first joint implanted in the second, 

 longer than usual, and as broad as the apical part of the second 

 segment, which is covered with elongated punctures with raised 

 intervals ; the first segment has on each side of the base a broad 

 triangular yellow patch coalescing with two broad elongated ones 

 on the second segment ; these two bands are separated by a narrow 

 median longitudinal space and cover nearly the whole of the upper 

 part of the segment, except a narrow apical band ; the three seg- 

 ments following are covered by a pubescent band ; the first segment 

 is sharply dentate on each side, and the ventral cariua is not very 

 sharp, the intermediate segments have a fringe of sub-flavescent 

 hairs, and the tibiae have a double series of spines. Length 

 9J mni. 



Hab. Cape Colony ('? Carnarvon). 



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MUTILLA TERPSICHORE. 



Female. Black or piceous, with the thorax ferruginous red on the 

 dorsal part, clothed with a dense white glistening pubescence on the 

 head and laterally on the thorax, where it forms two distinct elongate 

 patches on the epimera on each side ; head a little narrower than the 

 thorax, very rugose, sub-quadrate and with a very high ridge, inter- 

 rupted in the centre and very sharp at the external angle, running 

 along the base ; thorax truncate at apex, diagonal laterally form the 

 apical angle to about one-third of the length, where it is very dis- 

 tinctly aculeate, and gradually narrowed from there to the declivity, 

 where it is narrower by one-third than at its broadest part and slightly 

 tuberculate at an equal distance from the anterior tubercle and the 

 base; it is deeply scrobiculate, and the declivity is very sloping; 



