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XIII. Description of Twelve New Species of tlw Genus MutiUa 

 (Order Hymenoptera) in tlic. South African Museum. By L. 

 PERINGUEY, Assistant Director. 



SINCE the publication of my second paper on South African 

 Mutillidce, the Museum has received twelve new species, the descrip- 

 tion of which forms the subject of this paper. 



Through the courtesy of Mons. Ed. Andre I have been able to 

 examine two of his types of South African Mutillce, i.e., M. bassu- 

 tontin and M. penicillata, described by him. M. hassutorum resembles 

 very much M. pandora, Per., but is different, and M. penicillata is 

 indubitably identical with M. callisto, Per. ; the former name has 

 therefore priority. 



I have received from Mashunaland MutiUa coryphasia $ , Per., still 

 /// coitu with M. mephitis ? , Sm. This latter species occurs also in 

 Senegal, and I have received an example from Dakar. It is thus 

 probable that the females of M. atropos and M. acidalia will be like 

 M. mephitis in build and markings, as it proves to be for M. exaltata, 

 M. cloantha, and M. hecuba, which said species are closely allied in 

 both sexes to M. viduata, Pall., of Europe and Algeria. 



In the plate illustrating my two previous papers on South African 

 Mutillidce, the third cubital cell of the fore wing is partially closed in 

 M. erynnis $ (fig. 7) ; such is not the case ; it is entirely open, and 

 the first cubital should be more rectangular and cover the same area 

 as the second; in M. autinoe, fig. 4, the second transversal nervure is 

 not indicated, and the second discoidal should be more in the shape 

 of a parallelogram viewed sideways and not in the shape of an arc of 

 circle ; there are other inaccuracies in the neuration of some of the 

 other figures, such as the absence of the second transverse cubital 

 nervure, which should close the second cubital cell in M. purpurata, 



