Description of Tivelvc New Species of Mutilla. 447 



abdominal segments, and the whole surface of the third with a 

 transverse, slightly flavescent whitish band extending also on the 

 ventral part ; head rounded laterally behind the eyes which are 

 bulging much and are not emarginate ; it is deeply and closely 

 punctured, and covered with long greyish and black hairs, the 

 former of which predominate on the vertex ; mandibles somewhat 

 short, not much dilated at apex where they are trifid, and with a 

 moderately developed median external tooth beneath ; thorax 

 foveolato-punctate, covered with dense black hairs laterally and 

 beneath, but replaced on the prothorax, the tegulse, the scutellum 

 and the rnetathorax by flavescent ones, very dense on the prothorax 

 and scutellum ; mesothorax with two median longitudinal impressed 

 lines ; scutellum not much raised, rounded laterally, and slightly 

 emarginate at middle behind ; metathorax foveolate, not carinate 

 laterally, and with the posterior angles rounded ; abdomen sub- 

 petiolate, basal segment not very long, nodose, second segment 

 sub-orbicular ; they are both closely and deeply but not broadly 

 punctured, covered with dense erect greyish white hairs ; the base of 

 the first segment cannot be said to have a transverse band, although 

 there is a little pubescence, but the second segment is fringed with a 

 narrow, white, slightly flavescent band, and the whole of the third 

 segment is covered with a similar band ; the other segments are 

 clothed with black hairs ; antennae thick, first joint of flagellum 

 small, short, second joint one-third shorter than the following one 

 and not much wider than the first ; wings fuscous, violaceous, 

 stigma hardly discernible, opaque, radial cell truncate at tip, two 

 cubital cells and one recurrent nervure ; tibias non-spinose, spurs 

 black ; ventral carina of first segment with a sharp tooth in the 

 middle. Length 10 mm. 



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



Allied in general facies to M. appias and M. nyctimene, but in 

 these species the third cubital cell of the wings is closed, and the 

 metathorax is red in the former. 



MUTILLA CEBRENE. 



3 . Black, with the prothorax, mesothorax, and scutellum dark 

 red, tegulge piceous, wings steel-blue ; head quadrate, scrobiculate, 

 covered with dense ashy-grey hairs, forming a thick bunch in front 

 of the insertion of the antennas, jaws long, compressed and enlarged 

 at tip, slightly bifid there, and having beneath a greatly developed 



