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abdomen petiolate, ovate, the node of the first segment with a 

 transverse series of six acute tubercles, sharply dentate on each side 

 of the base and with a narrow, apical whitish band or spot, second 

 segment covered with wide, elongate fovese not very deep and having 

 five white patches, i.e., a triangular median one divided longitudi- 

 nally in the centre, and the apex of which does not reach the anterior 

 edge nor the base the median part, two supra-apical, median, sub- 

 ovate ones nearly coalescing, and one on each side quite close to the 

 lateral margin, fourth and fifth segments with a sub-quadrate median 

 patch, third and fourth segments with a silvery white band under- 

 neath, prolonged slightly beyond the suture on the dorsal joint ; 

 ventral carina of first segment dentiform at apex, ventral part of 

 second segment sub-carinate at the base ; tibiae with a double series 

 of spines. Length 13 mm. 



Hab. Bechuanaland (Morokweng). 



This species stands quite isolated among the South African ones. 



MUTILLA PANDORA. 



Female. Pale-red with the dorsal part of the abdomen black and 

 the ventral intermediate segments rufescent, head and thorax clothed 

 with a thick, decumbent, flavescent pubescence, hairs long, dense, 

 dark, abdominal patches and bands slightly flavescent ; head nearly 

 as broad as the thorax, finely striolate longitudinally, posterior angles 

 rounded slightly, eyes moderately large ; thorax broader laterally in 

 the first anterior part, sides carinate, not emarginate or dentate, 

 declivity perpendicular, it is concave in the centre, and the disk is 

 covered with elongate foveas hidden by the flavescent pubescence ; 

 abdomen sub-sessile, ovate, first segment dentate on each side and 

 short, second segment covered with raised, interrupted lines and 

 having a narrow, juxta-basal, elongate, median patch and a supra- 

 lateral, sub-transverse one at about the median part, equidistant from 

 the outer margin and the centre of the disk ; the three following seg- 

 ments are banded with white, but the band of the third one is broad 

 in the centre only and reduced to a narrow fringe laterally ; ventral 

 carina of the basal segment indistinct ; tibiae with a double series of 

 spines. Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



MUTILLA TISIPHONE. 



Female. Head, abdomen, antennas, and legs black, thorax red, 

 body clothed with hairs, black on the upper part and grey under- 

 neath ; head small, straight behind the eyes, which are large, 



