440 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(fig. 14), the first cubital cell of which should be much more elon- 

 gate at the expense of the first discoidal, &c. 



In my second paper in Part 2 of Vol. I. of the ANNALS an error of 

 enumeration in the text has crept in, and should be corrected as 

 follows : 



Page 357, Mutilla celimene, is not figured. 

 Page 361, Mutilla sethra, read Plate VIII., fig. 24. 

 Page 362, Mutilla thai's, read Plate VIII., fig. 26. 

 Page 363, Mutilla deianira, read Plate VIII., fig. 23. 

 Page 364, Mutilla dunbrodia, read Plate VIII., fig. 18. 



At the end of this paper an explanation of Plate VIII., omitted in 

 the previous paper, is given in full. 



MUTILLA MATUTA. 



? . Head and thorax red, mandibles, antennae, and legs reddish 

 ferruginous, abdomen black with a broad central flavous patch 

 in the centre of the basal joint ; the second has a basal band 

 and the third is totally covered by a band of the same colour ; head 

 sub-quadrate, but a little rounded laterally behind, eyes set forward, 

 large, oblong ; the surface is covered with round, scrobiculate fovese 

 and is nearly glabrous but for a few very long whitish setae ; antennal 

 tubercles piceous, scape nearly glabrous and piceous red, first joint 

 of flagellum nearly as long as the second, which has the shape of a 

 truncate cone ; mandibles sharp at tip, simple ; throax quadrate, 

 very nearly as broad as long, truncate at apex and at the posterior 

 declivity, with the sides not serrate, covered with deep and broad 

 foveae with no reticulated intervals, apical part of the declivity sub- 

 carinate, suture of the pro- and mesothorax distinct ; it is set with a 

 few very long greyish and white hairs ; abdomen sessile, basal joint 

 truncate and fitting exactly against the base of the second which 

 becomes ampliated laterally at a certain distance from the base ; both 

 these segments are finely but deeply punctured, and the punctures 

 are round, the basal segment has no distinct ventral carina, and the 

 median flavous patch of hairs extends a little beyond the suture ; the 

 basal band of the second segment is sensibly broader at middle, and 

 the apical segment is depressed and entirely covered with very closely 

 set minute punctures which give it the appearance of being very 

 finely granulose ; posterior tibiae thickened past the middle, and with 

 the outer series of spines obliterated ; spurs white. Length 7 mm. 



Hab. German South- West Africa (Salem). Dr. G. Laske. 



I know of no South African ally of this species. 



