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Allied to M. pliocia (enter pe), Per., and to M. iigi, Andr. ; the 

 example of the .latter species which I saw in Dr. Braun's collection 

 is allied to M. mahlalela, but the thorax is 6-dentate laterally and 

 bears 4 spines on the apex of the declivity ; the markings on the 

 .abdomen consist of a central elongate patch on the second segment, 

 as in M. pJwcia, and the four penultimate segments are penicillate 

 with yellow hairs. 



MYBMILLA NAMAQUA, sp. n. 



? . Pale testaceous, with the greater part of the second 

 abdominal segment infuscate ; hind border of the second segment 

 with a narrow whitish band, third segment covered with a whitish 

 band. Head much wider than the thorax, with the genae as long 

 as the eyes and obtusely rounded, the base sinuate, eyes large, supra- 

 lateral, surface hardly pubescent and covered with even, closely set 

 punctures ; third antennal joint slender and nearly thrice as long 

 as the fourth ; thorax short, one-third longer than broad, truncate 

 at apex with the anterior angles sharp, nearly parallel for one-fourth 

 of the length, emarginate thence for two-fourths with the remaining 

 fourth ampliate rounded with the posterior angles semi-obtuse but 

 hardly broader at the base than the apex of the pronotum, the 

 hind border bears on the centre a small dentiform tubercle, with 

 very faint indications of minute tubercles on either side of it, and 

 also on the sides of the declivity, the surface is finely striolate ; the 

 abdomen is beset with white setae, and the second segment which 

 is infuscate except in the centre of the base is finely aciculate ; the 

 pygidial area is also finely punctate ; legs sparsely hairy, hind tibiae 

 spinose, spurs white. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Bushmanland, Enkries), E. M. Lightfoot. 



This species is probably allied to M. dubiosa, Andr., of which I 

 have seen an example, but which is not represented in the Museum 

 collection ; it is differentiated by the size of the head, which is con- 

 siderably wider than the thorax and very massive in M. namaqua, 

 whereas according to Andre it is about the width of the thorax in 

 M. dubiosa. 



MYRMILLA BUINGELLA, sp. n. 



5 . Black, with the thorax red, the palps, the three basal joints 

 of antennae and the legs red ; abdomen sessile with a large median 

 patch of flavescent hairs on the first segment, second segment with 

 a narrow flavescent border dilated with a triangular patch in the 

 centre, the other segments fimbriate with sub-davescent hairs. 



