446 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Matopo Hills). R. Pillans. 

 A very distinct species without any South African ally known to 

 me. 



MUTILLA ATOSSA. 



$ . Black, shining, tegulte dark ferruginous, abdomen with a 

 transverse narrow basal band interrupted in the centre, and a broad 

 whitish band on the third segment ; head sub-quadrate but with the 

 posterior angles slightly rounded, and the eyes large and very 

 slightly emarginate ; it is closely foveolate and covered with greyish 

 hairs ; jaws moderately long, compressed and bind at tip, and 

 without any basal tooth beneath ; antennae not very thick, scape and 

 the two first segments of the flagellum piceous red, first joint of 

 nagellum small, second joint as thick as the third, but one-half 

 shorter ; thorax covered with closely set foveae, and clothed with 

 greyish white hairs denser on the scutellum ; prothorax rounded 

 laterally, mesothorax with two median longitudinal grooves and a 

 fine raised line in the centre, scutellum moderately raised, a little 

 narrowed laterally, behind ; metathorax short, very abruptly decli- 

 vous, not carinate laterally and having the posterior angles rounded; 

 abdomen sub-sessile ; the first joint has a short peduncle ; and 

 the basal part is as broad as the apical one of the second joint ; first 

 and second joints deeply foveolato-punctate and clothed with greyish 

 hairs ; the other joints are finely punctured and clothed with black 

 hairs, and the basal part of the second segment has a very narrow 

 silvery white band, broadly interrupted in the middle, while the 

 third segment is entirely covered by a continuous band ; wings 

 fuscous with a violaceous tinge, stigma very minute, opaque, radial 

 cell not truncate, three cubital cells and two recurrent nervures ; 

 legs non-spinose, spurs black or picecus ; ventral carina of first 

 segment laminate and abruptly truncate at both ends. Length 

 1H mm. 



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

 Allied to M. cinch reis, but the joints of the antennae are not sub- 

 aculeate inwardly at tip, the second joint of the flagellum is shorter 

 in proportion, and the punctures on the body are much deeper and 

 more broadly foveate. 



MUTILLA EUNYCE. 



$ . Black, with the prothorax and the scutellum covered 

 with dense, slightly fiavescent hairs, basal margin of the second 



