336 Ann!x of the South African Museum. 



MYRMILLA MAPUTA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the thorax completely red, legs red ; second abdo- 

 minal segment with two whitish small, not very well defined patches 

 situated towards the median part of the disk and equi-distant from 

 the centre and the outer sides, this segment has also a very narrow 

 fringe of semi-pubescent hairs, third segment clothed with a white 

 pubescence, fourth segment with a similar band broadly interrupted 

 in the centre. 



Closely allied to M. acde, Per., the head is of the same shape but 

 broader than the thorax at its widest part, the sculpture is alike, but 

 the antennae are more robust, the thorax is more slender, the 

 mesonotum is more strongly co-arctate, the metanotum is as broad 

 as the apical part of the pronotum ; the spots and bands on the 

 abdomen are nearly alike, but the band on the fourth segment is 

 interrupted in M. mapnta, and the sculpture of the second segment 

 is very fine and not strigillate in M. mapnta ; legs bristling with 

 white setae, hind tibiae spinose, spurs white. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban), C. N. Barker. 



I believe this species to be the male of M. ino, Per. (they were sent 

 me from the same locality) ; M. aede to be the male of M. dumbrodia, 

 Per., and M. proserpina, Per., that of M.pasyphae, Per., because both 

 sexes occur in the same locality. 



GEN. MUTILLA, Linn. 



MUTILLA TAKOTA, Sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the thorax red, abdomen with a faint silky white 

 patch, occasionally obliterated on the first segment, a narrow one, very 

 broadly interrupted in the centre on the apical border of the second > 

 and a broader also interrupted one on the third, last segment densely 

 fimbriate. Head a little broader than the thorax, truncate behind 

 with the angles not rounded, eyes very large, genae distinct, man- 

 dibles long, simple, surface roughly foveate punctate covered with 

 a greyish white pubescence intermixed with rigid black setae ; 

 antennae robust, third joint nearly as long as the two following taken 

 together ; thorax one-third longer than broad, sub-parallel but emar- 

 ginate laterally, anterior border of pronotum strongly sloping on each 

 side, metanotum not broader than the pronotum at its widest part 

 with the declivity sub-vertical, the surface is covered with broad, 

 deep foveae separated by longitudinal raised intervals forming more 



