86 Annals of the South African Museum. 



MUTILLA IMITATEIX, Smith, 



New Species of Hymenopt., 1879, p. 194. 



Black, covered with long, dense, whitish hairs, intermingled with 

 black ones, first and second abdominal segments bright red; head 

 and thorax clothed with a slightly flavescent pubescence, very thick 

 on the scutellum ; head with large eyes hardly emarginate, slightly 

 broader than the thorax, space between the eyes and the outer angle 

 moderate, posterior angle rounded ; suture of the prothorax and nieso- 

 thorax deeply marked, mesothorax very convex, scutellum also very 

 convex, tegulas very small, metathorax sloping, moderately quadrate ; 

 abdomen petiolate, with the basal joint moderately long and covered 

 with elongate punctures like the second one, and with no trace of 

 whitish patch or band, second segment with a narrow black band at 

 apex, fourth and fifth segments clothed with a white band ; ventral 

 carina of first segment produced in a long median spine, second 

 segment with a sharp, median carina reaching to about half the 

 length; tibiae spinose. Length 8|- mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Klerksdorp), both sexes. 



MUTILLA SEMELE. 



Eufo-testaceous, abdomen with the exception of the first basal 

 segment and the apical one fuscous black, legs flavescent, the whole 

 body covered with long, villous, pallid hairs ; head small, with the 

 eyes very large, prominent and not emarginate, nearly the whole of 

 the vertical part occupied by the ocelli, which are very large and very 

 convex, punctures hardly discernible ; antennae moderately long and 

 thick, but filiform ; thorax rugulose, mesothorax with two median 

 longitudinal grooves, metathorax deeply and closely foveate ; first 

 segment of abdomen long, petiolate, and with a narrow fuscous band 

 at the apex, ventral carina reaching from base to apex and serrulate, 

 second segment punctulate and fuscous like the three following ; 

 tibiae without spines ; wings hyaline, the stigma and apical part of 

 the fore wings slightly fuscous ; they have only one cubital cell well 

 defined, no recurrent nervure, no discoidal or apical cell, and the 

 third submarginal one is not closed. Length 8-11 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon). 



Eesembles M. pedunculata, Klug, from Egypt and Arabia. 



MUTILLA THISBE. 



Allied to the preceding species, but very light testaceous and with 

 the apex of the first and second segments narrowly marginate with 

 fuscous, third segment entirely fuscous; sculpture, vestiture, and 



