Notes on South African Mutiliidae. 327 



than that of the dorsal part, and densely greyish pubescent ; abdomen 

 pedunculate, the peduncle not very narrow at the base, nodose at 

 the apex, a little longer than wide at the apex, dentate on each side 

 of the base, and reticulate longitudinally, second segment also 

 longitudinally reticulate, the other segments finely punctate ; 

 underneath, the first segment is sharply carinate in the centre, the 

 carina is slightly crenulate and reaches from the base to two-thirds 

 of the length, the segments 2-4 are fimbriated with greyish white 

 hairs ; legs bristling with white setae, hind tibiae simple, spurs long, 

 black. 



Length 11 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Morokweng, Bechuanaland), E. G. Alston. 



Allied to D. alcithoe, Per. ; the livery of the abdomen is the same 

 and the shape of the first segment nearly alike, but the shape of the 

 thorax is plainly hexagonal, and unlike, for this reason, any other 

 male South African Mutillid known to me. 



DASYLABROIDES KATONGA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the thorax red, abdomen with the hind border of 

 the first, second, and third segments covered with a narrow band of 

 white pubescence. Head not broader than the prothorax, as wide as 

 long on the vertex with the posterior angles very little rounded, eyes 

 moderately large, non-emarginate, space between the hind part of 

 the eye and the posterior angle once and a half the length of the 

 eye, mandibles robust, the right one tri- the left quadri-dentate 

 inwardly, the inferior tooth is in the shape of a sharp tubercle, 

 surface closely and evenly punctate, clothed with partly appressed, 

 partly erect greyish hairs ; antennae of the normal shape, third 

 joint half the size of the fourth ; thorax with the neck black, the 

 pronotum moderately rounded laterally at apex, the mesonotum 

 moderately convex, the scutellum not very convex, slightly canalicu- 

 late in the posterior half, the metanoturn is divided from the meso- 

 sternum by a conspicuous carinate groove, is rounded laterally and 

 conspicuously reticulate, surface of the pro- and mesonotum covered 

 with small, even foveae, hardly pubescent but sparingly bristling 

 with white setae which are a little denser on the scutellary region ; 

 tegulae fuscous ; wings fuscous but partly hyaline near the base ; 

 abdomen briefly pedunculate petiolate and bearing underneath a 

 long sharp carina, it is deeply and closely punctate above on the 

 petiolate part, the punctures being of nearly the same size as those 

 of the second segment, which are moderately broad, even, and 



