Description of Twelve New Species of Mutilla. 415 



with some of the intervals slightly raised, extreme apical part 

 aciculate;. legs clothed with sub-flavescent hairs, tibiae with a double 

 series of spines, spurs fuscous. Length 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Hex River). L. Peringuey. 



A close ally of M. thais, Per. ; the shape of the thorax and abdo- 

 men is nearly similar, but the former is much more broadly foveate, 

 and the second segment of abdomen is not covered with closely set, 

 round punctures as in M. tlia'is. 



MUTILLA MATOPOA. 



? . Black, with the thorax red ; first segment of abdomen 

 with a sub-quadrate patch on each side of the apical part, a small, 

 triangular one at the apex of the second segment, and a transverse 

 band broadly interrupted in the middle on the third one ; head 

 elongate, sub-parallel laterally behind the eyes which are ovate and 

 situated forward, sub-truncate behind, broader than the anterior 

 part of the prothorax, broadly foveato-reticulate, clothed with few 

 black hairs and a sub-decumbent silvery white pubescence, jaws 

 trifid inwardly ; antennse black, second joint of flagellum as long as 

 the two following ; thorax a little sloping on each side at apex, 

 attenuate laterally towards the declivous part where it is one-third 

 narrower than at apex, the sides are slightly bi-sinuate and crenulate, 

 and the declivity very abrupt ; it is very roughly reticulate and 

 covered with dark and greyish hairs ; abdomen sessile, elongato- 

 ovate, first segment nearly vertical, dented on each side at base, 

 plane on the upper side, and fitting against the second segment 

 which is not broader at apex than the base of the first ; it is finely 

 and closely punctured, and the silvery patches, which are sub- 

 lateral, impinge on the apical margin of the second segment ; this 

 latter is clothed like the other segments with a dense black 

 pubescence, and is covered with moderately elongate, not very deep 

 punctures, intermixed with a few elongate foveas, and has in the 

 centre of the apical margin a small, sub-triangular silvery patch ; on 

 the third segment the band is interrupted in the centre for about 

 one -third of the length ; the other segments are closely punctured, 

 including the apical one which is as closely and distinctly punctured 

 as the preceding one for two-thirds of the length, but the apical part 

 is extremely finely aciculate, nearly smooth ; ventral carina of the 

 first segment short, truncate at apex ; legs black, clothed with silvery 

 white hairs, tibiae with two series of spines, spurs white. Length 

 20 mm. 



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