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slightly elongated punctures, pygidial area finely strigillate ; legs 

 clothed with flavescent white hairs, tibiae plurispinose, spurs long, 

 white. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree), Father J. O'Neil. A very 

 distinct species, the nearest South African ally of which is 

 D. pandora, Per. 



DASYLABRIS BALUCKA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, the hind border of first abdominal segment fringed 

 with dense greyish hairs, second segment with a patch of white 

 hairs in the centre above the middle, and the whole of the third and 

 fourth segments covered with a dense band of partly appressed, 

 partly erect white hairs. Third joint of antennal joint half the 

 length of the fourth ; eyes large but not emarginate, genae very 

 much rounded giving the base of the head an arcuate shape, surface 

 closely and evenly punctate and clothed with thick black and silky 

 greyish hairs, the latter more appressed ; thorax deeply pitted all 

 over, clothed like the head with sparse decumbent whitish hairs and 

 dense erect black ones, the scutellary region with a conspicuous 

 fascicle of long hairs, metanotum rounded laterally from base to 

 apex ; abdomen plainly petiolate, the first segment subfoveate 

 punctate, the second very closely cicatricose punctate, the others 

 closely and moderately finely punctate, clothed with very long, 

 greyish hairs ; legs black, bristling with black hairs, hind tibiae 

 simple, spurs long, black. 



Length 6| mm. ; expanse of wings 9 mm. 



Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury), Father J. O'Neil. 



This species greatly resembles Mutilla deiopeia, Per., and 

 M. eunyce, Per., which is perhaps a varietal form of deiopeia, but 

 the third cubital cell is closed instead of being open as in the last 

 two named species, which belong moreover to the genus Mutilla. 

 It is however distinguished from both by the presence of a whitish 

 patch of white hairs on the second segment, and of a white band on 

 the fourth segment. The latter has a wide range, as I have seen 

 an example from Bulawayo differing in no particular from examples 

 found near Cape Town, where I captured several specimens hovering 

 over a low bush under which I found a solitary female of 

 D. inconspicua, Sm. 



DASYLABEIS MAKANGA, sp. n. 



3 Black, with the pronotum clothed with a dense long, golden- 

 yellow pubescence extending over the scutellary region and the 



