Description of Twelve New Mutilla. 441 



MUTILLA ENIPPE. 



? . Head and thorax deep red, antennae, legs, and abdomen black, 

 the latter with the base of the first and second segments, the whole 

 of the third and the margin of the apical one banded with a slightly 

 flavescent pubescence, second segment with one central median 

 ovate spot and a sub-lateral one on each side of it ; head deeply 

 foveolato-scrobiculate, clothed with a silvery somewhat sparse pubes- 

 cence, eyes very large and bulging, extending nearly to the posterior 

 angles which are rounded ; scape of antennae piceous, first joint of 

 flagellum thick, second a little more than twice as long as the first, 

 and only a little longer than the third ; mandibles sharp at tip, 

 simple ; thorax parallel, long, narrow, truncate at apex, and with the 

 posterior declivity nearly vertical, the suture of the mesothorax and 

 the scutellary region is very distinct ; there is a short, compressed 

 scutellary tubercle, the outer sides are crenulate, and the upper sur- 

 face is deeply and closely foveolato-reticulate, while the intervals at 

 the top of the declivity are almost tuberculate ; it is clothed with 

 black, short hairs turning to grey on the sides ; abdomen sub-petio- 

 late, short, nodose at apex, and with the ventral carina briefly tri- 

 dentate, second segment covered with closely set and deep, elongate 

 punctures without sinuate walls, the lateral sub-flavescent patches 

 are nearly equi-distant from the outer margin and from the central 

 one which is a little larger, and the basal band is a little thicker at 

 middle ; the apical segment is covered with arcuate, fine and closely 

 set striae, the extreme apex itself being smooth ; legs black, clothed 

 with white hairs, tibiae with a double series of spines, spurs white. 

 Length &| mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). Rev. J. A. O'Neil. 



This species is almost identical with M. tettensis in general facies, 

 although smaller ; the white spots on the second joint of the abdomen 

 are similarly arranged, but there is a basal band on this segment 

 which is wanting in M. tettensis, and the band on the third segment 

 is not interrupted as in the last-named species. 



MUTILLA NOKTIA. 



? . Black, with thorax red ; basal segment of abdomen with 

 a small lateral patch ; the other abdominal segments, except the 

 apical one, having a basal whitish, sub-flavescent transverse band ; 

 head as broad as long, and nearly as broad as the base of the pro- 

 throax, sub-quadrate, eyes ovate, bulging, equi-distant from apex and 

 base ; it is covered with deep, closely set fovese, and clothed with a 



