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or less distinct carinules ending on the top of the declivity in an ill- 

 defined crenulation, foveae of the declivity wider and deeper than on 

 the disk ; abdomen beset with black hairs, white on the sides, 

 second segment conspicuously strigillate from the base to the apex, 

 the raised lines closely set, pygidial area, finely strigillate near the 

 base, finely aciculate on the remainder of the surface ; legs set with 

 white bristles, hind tibiae spinose, spurs long, white. 



Length 7J-11 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury), 

 Father J. O'Neil. 



MUTILLA MAROTSA, Sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the thorax red, abdomen with a narrow apical, 

 broadly interrupted flavescent band on the second segment, and a 

 similar but broader one covering the third segment. The de- 

 scription of M. takota suits the present species, but the difference 

 between the two is mainly in the shape of the metanotum which is 

 transversely carinate above the declivity, this carina is faintly crenu- 

 late, and in the centre there is an unciform blunt transverse spine, 

 the sides of the declivity are slightly serrate ; the second abdominal 

 segment is less conspicuously strigillate ; the rest as in J/. takota. 



Length 11 mm. 



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



MUTILDA BOKOTA, Sp. n. 



5 . Black, antennae, palpi, tibiae, tarsi brick-red, femora fuscous 

 reddish, thorax red, second abdominal segment with a median, sub- 

 elongate, silky white somewhat flavescent patch reaching from a 

 short distance from the apex to the median part, and with a quite 

 lateral yet somewhat more median, faint whitish patch on each side, 

 the hind border has a narrow silky white fringe which expands into 

 a somewhat broad triangle in the centre, the third segment is covered 

 by a white sub-flavescent band. Head as broad as long, eyes large, 

 genae little produced behind the eyes, rounded, face and vertex 

 irregularly punctate, briefly setulose ; thorax parallel, nearly twice 

 as long as broad, and with the angles distinct, truncate behind, and 

 with a triangular sub-obtuse spine in the centre of the border of the 

 declivity, clothed with a moderately dense flavescent pubescence and 

 a few erect hairs ; abdomen sessile, second segment evenly punctate, 

 the punctures ovate, not rugose, the intervals inclined to form a 

 slight striation, the other segments are more finely punctate, and the 

 pygidial area is very hairy ; hind tibiae spinose, spurs white. 



