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Annals of the South Afiican Museum. 



GEN. MYRMILLA, Wesrn. 



Mutilla acrisione, $ . 



acile, 3 



althaea, ? . 



antiopc, $ 3 . 



bambata, J . 



bcllona, 5 



charichloe, 5 



dc.janira, ? 



crigonc, $ 



77/0, $ 



opia, $ 



pasyphac, $ 



perse, $ 



jilit-cia, $ 



promontorii, 3 



GEN. DASYLABR01DES, And. 



DASYLABKOIDES BECHUANA, sp. n. 



3 . Apterous ; black, with the thorax red, and a broad reddish 

 patch on the vertex, the first, second, and third abdominal segments 

 \vith a narrow apical border of white pubescence. Head quadrate, 

 with the posterior angles bluntly rounded, eyes lateral, not emargin- 

 ate, the space behind them and the posterior angle longer than the 

 eyes themselves, mandibles with an inner tooth somewhat distant 

 from the falcate apex, no tooth on the under side, surface irregularly 

 foveate, clothed with a dense white pubescence and some rigid 

 petae ; antennae somewhat robust, third joint equal in length to the 

 fourth; thorax hexagonal, neck long, pronotum with the anterior 

 border slightly arcuate but with the angles distinct and slightly 

 sloping laterally for a quarter of the length, the sides of the 

 metanotum are there produced in a broadly triangular tubercle 

 above which are seen the rudiments of the tegulae, the metanotum 

 is gradually narrowed laterally in the shape of a broadly truncate 

 cone, the rnesosternum is somewhat convex, but the scutellum is 

 hardly distinct, and the declivity is fairly vertical, the surface is 

 broadly reticulate, the reticulation of the declivity is much broader 



