Some New or Little Known South African Mutillidce. 85 



No other South African species known to me with long, petiolate 

 basal abdominal segment has the prothorax rounded in front and 

 aculeate laterally as the present species. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



MUTILLA DEIOPEIA. 



Black, covered with a dense greyish villosity and a short pubescence 

 of the same colour on the head and thorax ; antennae and legs sub- 

 rufescent ; head very closely punctured, narrowed diagonally from 

 behind the eyes, which are large and not emarginate ; thorax deeply 

 and irregularly punctured, the punctures broader and deeper on the 

 metathorax, which is very declivous behind, one-fourth broader than 

 long, and rounded laterally at the basal part of the declivity ; abdo- 

 men with a dark cyaneous tinge, first segment covered with closely 

 set, broad punctures, second segment very closely and finely punc- 

 tured, the punctures hardly elongate and with no raised intervals, the 

 silky white band on the third segment a little wider than that of the 

 second ; ventral carina of the first segment hardly truncate at apex, 

 second one with a raised line reaching from the base to about the 

 median part ; tibiae without spines. Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Port Elizabeth). 



MUTILLA CAPENSIS, Sauss., 

 Eeis. der Novara. Hymenopt., p. 107, pi. iv., tig. 64. 



Black, with the prothorax and mesothorax, and also the scutellum 

 red ; antennae and legs piceous red ; head a little broader than the 

 thorax, nearly twice as broad as long, very roughly punctured, eyes 

 large, not emarginate ; prothorax aculeate laterally and slightly sinuate 

 behind the sharp projection, mesothorax with two longitudinal, 

 median grooves, metathorax regularly attenuate behind and strongly 

 dehiscent ; the upper part is roughly and closely punctured, and the 

 punctures on the metathorax much broader and deeper than in the 

 prothorax and mesothorax; first segment of abdomen long, petiolate, 

 basal part of the first, second, and third segments with a narrow silky 

 white band, second segment covered with narrow, elongate, closely 

 set punctures ; ventral carina on the first segment truncate at apex, 

 the point sharp ; tibiae without spines ; wings hyaline or nearly so at 

 base, infuscate at tip. Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



The sculpture of the abdomen and the white pubescent bands are 

 exactly as in the female. I have specimens of both sexes caught in 

 copuld. 



