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laterally behind ; abdomen neither pedunculate nor petiolate, first 

 abdominal segment with a basal lateral spine, and closely 

 punctured like the following ones, punctures moderately deep, 

 narrow and with smooth intervals, the whitish bands on the three 

 basal segments very narrow ; eyes slightly emarginate ; ventral 

 carina, abrupt and sharp at tip, denticulate in the middle ; legs 

 without spines ; wings slightly infuscate from one-third of the 

 length to the apex. Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Hope Town), Port Elizabeth. 



MUTILLA APPIAS. 



Black, densely covered with a greyish villosity ; head nearly 

 as broad as the prothorax, diagonally attenuate behind the eyes 

 which are large, not emarginate ; prothorax, rnesothorax and scu- 

 tellum roughly shagreened, metathorax short, very declivous, 

 nearly twice as broad as long with the basal part of the declivity 

 rounded, red, and covered with broad, deep punctures, broader and 

 with the intervals raised in the median part, prothorax with a broad 

 band of dense whitish hairs covering nearly the whole of the surface ; 

 first abdominal segment moderately long but distinctly petiolate, 

 subfoveate, second segment closely punctured, the punctures deeper 

 and sub-elongate in the anterior part, while the posterior part and 

 also the sides are only deeply aciculate ; ventral ridge of the first 

 abdominal segment sharp, truncate and sub-aculeate at apex ; tibiae 

 without spines ; wings totally infuscate. Length 10414 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Klerksdorp), Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth), 

 Natal (Estcourt). 



MUTILLA CINCHREIS. 



Black, clothed with dense, short, villous black hairs, dorsal part 

 of abdomen with a faint, dark cyaneous tinge ; antennas and legs 

 opaque black, the joints of the latter thick and sub-acute inwardly at 

 tip; head rugose, eyes deeply emarginate ; rnesothorax with two deep, 

 median longitudinal grooves, metathorax more broadly and deeply 

 punctured than the prothorax rnesothorax and sides, declivous 

 behind and rounded laterally ; first abdominal segment short, not 

 petiolate, the segments following closely punctured, the apical bands 

 on the first and second segments narrow, the one on the third seg- 

 ment broad and nearly clothing the whole of it ; ventral carina of 

 first segment short, truncate at tip, both ends sharp ; tibiae without 

 spines ; wings infuscate all over. Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Port Elizabeth). 



J/. dciopcia is the South African species, the description of which 



