Notes on South African Mutillidac. 331 



tegulae ; second and third abdominal segments with a series of 

 sparse, long stiff white hairs which are far too scattered to form 

 a band ; wings entirely fuscous black ; palps black, head much 

 rounded behind the eyes which are large and not emarginate on the 

 upper part, closely pitted on the vertex, which like the anterior part 

 is clothed with dense whitish hairs mixed with a few black ones, and 

 a few orange-yellow ones on the hind border, mandibles trifid at 

 apex, no spine underneath, basal joint of antennae pubescent black, 

 third joint half the length of the fourth ; pronotum and mesonotum 

 deeply foveolate punctate, metanotum closely reticulate ampliate 

 laterally behind with the angles very broadly rounded, somewhat 

 shiny, and clothed sparingly with black hairs ; first and second 

 segments of abdomen covered with equal, moderately wide foveae 

 and clothed with dense, erect black hairs, the other segments are 

 closely punctate and densely hairy black, the first segment has 

 underneath a short carina truncate at base only ; legs black, fore 

 ones with a greyish pubescence, the hairs on the intermediate and 

 hind ones black, hind tibiae simple, spurs black. 



Length 11 mm. ; expanse of wings 19 mm. 



Hal}. Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo). 



A very distinct species, but near D. incropc, Sm. 



GEN. STENOMUTILLA, Andr. 



STENOMUTILLA MUKSIXGA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the pronotum, mesonotum, scutellary region and 

 tegulae red ; abdomen with a silky white band on the first three 

 basal segments ; wings hyaline on the first basal third, fuscous with 

 the nervures steel blue on the other two-thirds ; head rounded 

 behind, with the genae long, eyes moderately large, not emarginate, 

 surface closely pitted, briefly pubescent, sparsely hairy. Antennae 

 somewhat robust, third joint shorter than the fourth ; thorax closely 

 foveate, metanotum short, very declivous, sub-parallel laterally with 

 the hind angles rounded, the declivous part arcuate, the surface 

 clothed with black hairs with a few white ones on the sides ; first 

 joint of abdomen petiolate and deeply and evenly punctate with the 

 intervals smooth, the other segments, including the pygidial area, 

 much more finely punctate ; legs clothed with whitish hairs, hind 

 tibiae simple, spurs long, black ; underneath the second and third 

 segments have a distinct fringe of white hairs. 

 Length 15 mm. ; expanse of wings 24 mm. 



