Notes on South African Mutillidae. 335 



to nearly the apex; legs bristling with white setae, hind tibiae strongly 

 spinose on the outer edge, spurs long, white. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Plumtree), Father J. O'Neil. 



This species is very closely allied to M. ino, Per. (pectinidorsis, 

 Andr.) and may prove ultimately to be only a varietal form, but it 

 differs from J\L ino by the sculpture of the head, which is not so 

 rough nor are the intervals carinulate in the anterior part of the 

 vertex ; the prothorax is much more distinctly striolate longitudinally 

 and the punctures of the second abdominal segments are much finer. 

 M. ino has been recorded from Natal and the Orange Free State 

 only, to my knowledge. 



MYRMILLA BUNGANA, sp. n. 



3 . Black, with the neck and dorsal and lateral parts of thorax 

 red, second abdominal segment with a small, sub-transverse flavescent 

 patch situated towards but not quite in the middle, and equi-distant 

 from the centre and the sides, third and fourth segments clothed 

 with a silky whitish band, seemingly interrupted narrowly in the 

 centre in the two examples which I have examined. Head trans- 

 verse, wider than the prothorax, eyes large, not emarginate, situated 

 forward, the space between the base of the eye and the posterior 

 angle longer than the eye itself, the posterior angles slightly 

 rounded, the base sinuate, surface roughly punctate striate, clothed 

 with a dense greyish flavescent pubescence, antennal tubercles 

 moderately prominent, antennae somewhat robust, third antennal 

 joint shorter than the fourth ; thorax twice as long as broad at its 

 widest part, strongly coarctate laterally on the mesonotal region, 

 the rudimentary tegulae distinct, metanotum anipliate rounded, a 

 little wider than the pronotum, slantingly declivous, coarsely foveate 

 all over and beset with whitish and black rigid setae ; abdomen 

 sessile, the second segment irregularly strigillate punctate, the 

 irregular longitudinal strigillation more apparent than the punc- 

 tures ; legs fringed with greyish hairs, hind tibiae simple, spurs 

 long, white. 



Length 9-10 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Empandeni), Father J. O'Neil. 



The nearest ally of this species is M. bambata, Per., in which, 

 however, the head is hardly wider than the pronotum, the meso- 

 notum much less strongly constricted, and the metanotum narrower 

 than the pronotum, whereas the metanotum is distinctly wider than 

 the pronotum in M. bungana, etc. 



