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tures, the intervals of which are raised, especially towards the outer 

 sides ; the basal white band is very narrow and distinctly interrupted 

 in the middle, and it has beneath three carinae ending in a sharp 

 tubercle ; the band on the third segment is as broadly interrupted as 

 the basal one of the second segment, and the apical one is depressed 

 and nearly smooth at apex ; legs black, clothed with silvery white 

 bristles, spurs white. Length 13 mm. 



Allied to M. astarte, M. pytliia, and M. bi-lunata. From notes 

 taken when comparing some of my examples with Smith's types in 

 the British Museum, M. bi-lunata and M. pyiliia, and possibly M. 

 corn-par ata, may prove to be the same species ; but M. astarte has 

 also three longitudinal carime ending in a small tooth on the ventral 

 part of the second abdominal segment, and M. clclia might prove to 

 be a small varietal form of the latter. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



MUTILLA CYDLENE. 



5 . Head and prothorax pale brick-red legs and antennas 

 rufescent, abdomen black with the exception of the first segment 

 which is brick-red ; base of the first four abdominal segments banded 

 with sub-flavescent white, second segment with a basal, median 

 patch ; head deeply pitted, covered with a silky slightly flavescent 

 pubescence and pale brownish hairs, eyes large, ovate, very bulging, 

 posterior angles of the head slightly rounded ; second joint of the 

 flagellurn only a little longer than the one following, mandibles sharp 

 at tip, simple ; prothorax hardly broader at apex than the head, 

 truncate in front, gradually attenuate laterally from apex to base 

 where it is about one-fourth narrower, a little sinuate laterally and 

 with a sharp projecting angle at the beginning of the sinuation, 

 posterior declivity very sloping and having at tip a scutellary 

 tubercle ; it is covered with deep reticulate foveae, clothed with long, 

 greyish and white hairs, and the sides of the declivity are marginate 

 and sub-serrulate ; abdomen pedunculate, first segment not very 

 long, nodose at base and having a three dentate ventral carina ; it is 

 deeply punctate and has a w T hite, slightly flavescent, apical trans- 

 verse band ; the second segment is covered with wavy longitudinal 

 raised lines, enclosing elongate, narrow foveae ; it bears a small comma- 

 shape, whitish patch in the centre of the base, and an apical trian- 

 gular band ascending in the middle to about one-quarter of its length, 

 third and fourth segments entirely banded with flavescent white, 

 apical segment covered with very closely set longitudinal striae, and 



