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would agree most with that of M. cinchreis ; but the latter is more 

 robust, the antennas are very much longer and thicker, the first 

 abdominal segment is short and not petiolate, the second segment 

 and following are more pyriforni, and the ventral part of the second 

 segment has no carina. 



M. HIPPOLYTE. 



Black, abdomen with a faint dark-blue tinge, tegulse red ; 

 head and thorax clothed with long, dense, sub-flavescent hairs, 

 abdominal bands orange-yellow ; head transverse, rugose, straight 

 laterally behind the eyes which are slightly emarginate ; thorax 

 rugose, mesothorax with two longitudinal grooves, metathorax with 

 the posterior angles rounded ; abdomen sessile, band on the first 

 segment overlapping the base of the second, which is covered with 

 short, elongate, densely set punctures, and has on each side a narrow 

 band reaching a quarter of the width, third segment covered with a 

 broad band interrupted in the centre ; ventral carina of first segment 

 truncate and aculeate at base ; wings infuscate throughout. Length 

 11 mm. 



Allied to I/", tccmcssa, but differs by the colour of the thorax, 

 which is entirely black with the tegulse red, whereas in M. 

 tecmessa the dorsal part of the prothorax and mesothorax and the 

 scutellum are red, the second segment of the abdomen is covered with 

 small, closely set, elongate punctures instead of moderately deep, 

 round, non-confluent ones, the abdomen is nearly black instead of 

 cyaneous, the apical band on the second segment is very broadly 

 interrupted instead of reaching from side to side, and the ventral 

 carina of the first segment is more truncate and more aculeate at base. 



Hab. Cape Colony (? Calvinia). 



MUTILLA NYCTIMENE. 



Totally black, clothed with black and white hairs ; head closely 

 punctured, the hairs in the anterior part and along the posterior 

 part silvery white, eyes not emarginate ; thorax closely and 

 deeply punctured, the punctures on the metathorax broader and 

 deeper, mesothorax covered with a dense, greyish white pubescence, 

 mesothorax with two longitudinal grooves not very apparent, scu- 

 tellum raised, convex, post-scutelluni with a small fascicle of white 

 hairs, metathorax with the posterior angles rounded ; abdomen sub- 

 petiolate, all the segments finely shagreened, basal joint with a 

 narrow, apical silvery white band, second segment with a broad, 

 somewhat rounded pubescent white patch placed in the middle of 

 the basal part and reaching to about the median part, apical 



