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reaching from the base to the median part, not highly carinate 

 laterally and ending in an aculeate tubercle ; the third segment only 

 of the abdomen is banded with white, and the spurs of the tibias are 

 white. 



This species is closely allied to M. charaxes, Sin., from Guinea ; 

 it has also no white or subflavescent pubescence on the prothorax, 

 and only one band on the third abdominal segment, but in M. tyro the 

 metathorax is clothed at base with a thick pubescence, and the groove 

 is neither so long nor so aculeate, nor is it carinate laterally ; the 

 abdominal band is not interrupted in the centre. Length 14|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth ; Uitenhage). 



MUTILLA CLOANTHA. 



Black, with the first segment of abdomen totally red, second seg- 

 ment also red but with an apical narrow black margin, body covered 

 with a dense pubescence, greyish white on the frontal part and the 

 prothorax, band on the abdomen silvery white ; head transverse, 

 straight laterally behind, eyes moderately large, deeply emarginate, 

 punctures broad, closely set, antennae massive ; thorax deeply and 

 closely punctured, prothorax clothed with a dense greyish white 

 pubescence, rnesothorax with two median distinct grooves and two 

 supra-lateral ones less defined, tegulas very large, piceous red, 

 scutellum convex, slightly emarginate behind, metathorax deeply 

 foveate and having at about the median part two small transverse 

 ridges more or less aculeate and not connected with the base by a 

 groove ; first and second segments of abdomen very roughly sha- 

 greened, third basal segment only clothed with a silky white band ; 

 abdominal carina of the first segment produced in a long vertical 

 tooth at apex ; tibiae not spinose ; wings infuscate from a short 

 distance from the base. Length 13-13^ mm. 



The difference between this species and M. exaltata, Sm., con- 

 sists in the absence of a pubescent band on the fourth segment ; 

 the metathorax of the latter has no median groove, and the trans- 

 verse carina is somewhat bifid and not much developed. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Kowie). 



MUTILLA HEEMIONE. 



Black, clothed with whitish villose hairs ; rnesothorax and 

 scutellum red, tegulae piceous red; head very rugose, transverse- 

 quadrate, not rounded laterally behind, slightly broader than the 

 prothorax at apex and having two median longitudinal narrow 

 grooves in the posterior part ; rnesothorax, scutellum, and sides 

 punctulate, metathorax declivous, a little attenuate and rounded 



