450 Annals of the South African Museum. 



the third, but of equal width, scape very roughly punctured ; thorax 

 truncate in front, not long ; deeply foveolate, mesothorax without 

 longitudinal raised line or groove, scutellum on a plane with the 

 mesothorax, transverse with the posterior angles rounded, a little 

 emarginate and slightly declivous at apex ; tegulae red, deeply 

 punctured ; wings fuscous, anterior ones slightly bluish at tip and a 

 little less deeply infuscate at base, stigma opaque, very small, radial 

 cell not truncate nor very elongate ; three cubital cells and two 

 recurrent nervures ; abdomen petiolate, first and second segments 

 covered with deep, elongate, foveolate punctures, the others closely 

 aciculate ; the first segment is long, very slender at base, and 

 gradually swollen, and the remainder of the abdomen is quite ovate, 

 the margins of the first and second segments have a silvery white 

 pubescent band, and the third is covered with a similar band which 

 is not, however, broader than the marginal one of the second ; ventral 

 carina of the first segment nearly as long as the segment itself, little 

 raised, and not truncate at apex ; legs black ; tibiae not spinose, 

 spurs black. Length 12 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker. 



Its nearest ally among South African Mutilla with the basal 

 segment long and nodose at apex, is M. capicola, but it differs from 

 it by the less deep and narrower foveolate punctures on the two 

 basal segments of the abdomen, the first of which is also a little 

 more slender, and there is a transverse band on the third segment 

 which is absent in M. capicola. 



NOTE. 



The names eutcrpc, p. 358, and clytemnestra, p. 360, being 

 preoccupied, must be changed into pliocia and dasya respectively. 



Instead of Mutilla cloantha, figs. 18, 20, p. 353, read figs. 19, 21; 

 and p. 367, line 25, read artemisia instead of creilsa. 



