A niwls of the South African Museum. 



sub-vertical tooth near the median part ; eyes large, emarginate ; 

 antennas moderately long, not very thick ; second joint of the 

 funicle a little longer than the third ; thorax foveolate, covered with 

 moderately long hairs which are brownish on the upper side and 

 slightly silvery on the mesosternum ; mesothorax with longitudinal 

 grooves and a median raised line ; scutellum produced in a very 

 distinct triangular tubercle sharp at tip and beset with fulvous 

 hairs ; metathorax sloping, more broadly foveate than the rest of 

 the thorax, sharply carinate laterally and having another sharp 

 carina running parallel with the carinate outer margin and at a 

 short distance from it for a little less than half the length ; median 

 part with two slightly raised, wavy lines ending in a very small, 

 inconspicuous tubercle at about the middle ; abdomen sub-sessile, 

 covered with somewhat brownish hairs turning to ashy-grey beneath ; 

 rirst segment sharply dentate on each side of the base and also 

 laterally, but in a less degree, at a short distance from the base, and 

 diagonally ampliated from there to the base which is a little narrower 

 than the apex of the second segment which is ampliated laterally, 

 and closely but not deeply punctured like the other segments, but 

 has a median space quite smooth and very shining ; ventral carina 

 of basal segment not very developed, slanting at apex and 

 emarginate ; spurs of tarsi white ; tibite non-spinose ; wings with 

 three cubital cells; stigma elongate, celluliform, radial cell not 

 truncate. Length 22 mm. 



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



The facies is not unlike that of M. aclicron, and the shape and 

 sculpture of the mesothorax and scutellum is similar. 



MUTILLA JIENALIPPA. 



$ . Black, with the first and second segments of abdomen red, 

 the two first segments with a narrow, basal, flavescent band, third 

 segment entirely flavescent, tegulae reddish brown, wings fuscous ; 

 head transverse, parallel laterally, foveolate and covered with black 

 hairs turning to flavous behind and laterally as well as on the basal 

 joint of antennae and in front of them, jaws moderately long, trifid 

 on each side at tip and having beneath a dentiform process which 

 is the prolongation of the inferior margin abruptly truncate at middle ; 

 eyes large, emarginate ; antennae thick, second joint of the funicle 

 half the length of the third ; thorax foveolato-reticulate ; it is 

 covered with dense yellowish hairs, those on the mesothorax are 



