Notes on Soutli African Mutillidae. 329 



GEN. DASYLABRIS, Radoz. 



DASYLABRIS MATIESA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the thorax red, abdomen with a silvery white 

 pubescent band on the hind border of the first segment, an ovate 

 elongate patch in the median basal part of the second which has in 

 addition a narrow, apical band triangularly dilated in the centre ; 

 third segment covered by a broad white band. Head much rounded 

 behind, eyes somewhat large, genae short, much rounded, surface 

 closely punctate, pubescent black but with a very distinct transverse 

 band of white pubescence on the vertex ; thorax pyriform, one-fourth 

 narrower at the base than at the apex, which is truncate with the 

 angles sharp, not emarginate or dentate laterally, closely foveolate 

 and having a small tubercle in the centre of the edge of the declivity. 

 Abdomen sub-pedunculate, the first joint short, nodose, about half 

 the width of the base of the second, which is finely and simply punc- 

 tate, and is clothed with an appressed black tomentum hiding the 

 sculpture ; legs with white bristles, hind tibiae strongly spinose, 

 spurs white. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester), F. W. Purcell. 



I know no close ally to this pretty little species, of which I have 

 seen one female example, and which is so remarkable by the silvery 

 sheen of the white pubescence. 



DASYLABRIS MOAMBA, sp. n. 



5 . Head, thorax, antennae, legs and first abdominal segment 

 light red, the other segments black, the second with a median apical 

 silky white patch, a narrow basal band of the same colour dilated in 

 a triangle in the centre, and the sides clothed with a slivery pubes- 

 cence extending from apex to base, but not dense enough to be 

 termed a band, third segment clothed with a white band, the others 

 with an abbreviated lateral band of the same colour, which is 

 however nearly entire, although not conspicuous on the border 

 of the penultimate segment. Head deeply pitted, clothed with a 

 fiavescent pubescence, palps slightly infuscate, neck very distinct ; 

 third antennal joint as long as the fourth, but more slender ; 

 thorax sub-hexagonal, longer than broad, not much ampliated in the 

 middle which is slightly angular, the margins not sinuated; it is 

 coarsely foveate and clothed with an appressed fiavescent pubescence, 

 abdomen pedunculate, peduncle short, but distinct, spinose on each 

 side at base, second segment covered with very closely set, small, 



