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shape of M. semclc; the basal segment is equally long and slender, 

 but the node is not quite so thick and the abdomen is a little more 

 elongato-ovate ; legs without spines ; neuration and colour of wings 

 as in J/. seinele. Length 8-lli mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon, Namaqualand). 



MUTILLA AMALTHEA. 



Head and thorax bluish black, metathorax dark cyaneous, abdo- 

 men distinctly cyaneous, legs and antennas black, tegulae dark 

 ferruginous ; pubescence dense, greyish black ; head small, very 

 rugose in front, closely punctured behind, eyes moderately large 

 and slightly emarginate ; prothorax and mesothorax, and also the 

 scutellum, deeply and closely punctured, mesothorax with two 

 median, longitudinal grooves, metathorax foveate, and with a broad 

 groove reaching from the base to one-fourth of the length, smooth 

 and with the sides marginate; abdominal segments closely punctured, 

 the punctures on the second segment deep and broad, median part 

 of the second and third segments with a smooth, depressed narrow 

 line, basal segment a little elongate but not subpedunculate, ventral 

 carina of first segment aculeate behind ; the whole abdomen is clothed 

 with dark hairs ; tibias non-spinose ; legs clothed with a slightly 

 brownish villosity ; antennae thick, joints slightly marginate in the 

 upper margin, and a little ampliate underneath ; wings entirely 

 infuscate. Length 10^-12 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



MUTILLA GORGE. 



Entirely similar to M. amalthea in shape and sculpture ; the 

 antennas are also thick and the joints alike, the colour is also blue- 

 black on the head and thorax, but the mesothorax, scutellum, and 

 tegulae are red, and the former has also two very distinct longitudinal 

 median grooves ; the abdomen is cyaneous, clothed with black villous 

 hairs, and similarly punctured ; the wings are totally infuscate, and 

 the ventral carina of the first segment is identical in shape. Length 

 12 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



MUTILLA ACIDALIA. 



Black, clothed with a dense black pubescence except on the vertex 

 of the head and the prothorax where the pubescence is golden-yellow, 

 third dorsal segment of abdomen nearly entirely covered by a silky 

 white band ; head small, very rugose, eyes large, ovate, not ernar- 



