338 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hab. Southern Khodesia (Bulawayo). 



Near M. amalita, Per., but very distinct. 



MUTILLA BE IRA, Sp. 11. 



$ . Black, with the thorax red, the first abdominal segment with a 

 conspicuous apical patch of white pubescence, second with a median 

 ovate patch of the same colour, third, fourth, and fifth segments 

 covered by a white pubescent band, sometimes ill-defined or obsolete 

 on the penultimate. Head transverse on the vertex, base slightly 

 arcuate in the centre, but the posterior angles are sharp and not 

 rounded, eyes large, lateral, genae long, surface coarsely foveate, 

 briefly pubescent white, labrum villose white, mandibles long, simple, 

 antennae somewhat robust, third joint nearly twice the length of the 

 fourth ; thorax nearly parallel, nearly one-third as long as broad, 

 fore border of the pronotum is very slightly sloping on each side and 

 the angles are sharp, the metanotum is not broader, and the declivity 

 is nearly vertical, from apex to two-thirds of the length it is longi- 

 tudinally carinulate, the slightly wavy carinules enclosing elongated 

 foveae, in the metanotal part, however, the foveae only are left, the 

 apex of the declivity and also the sides are slightly crenulate, and on 

 the centre of the declivity there is an unciform, transverse, blunt, more 

 distinct tooth, the surface is covered with a somewhat dense white 

 pubescence, and the contracted part of the sides is clothed with a 

 broad conspicuous silky white patch ; abdomen sessile, clothed with 

 white and black setae, second segment conspicuously carinulate 

 longitudinally, the carinules closely set and enclosing narrowly 

 ovate punctures ; pygidial area strigillate from base to apex ; 

 legs with white bristles, hind tibiae strongly spinose, spurs white. 



Length 6-9 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira), P. A. Sheppard. 



The facies and livery of this species is that of M. exaltata, Sm., 

 and M. oiityhale, Pe"r., and it is an ally also of M. praedatrix , Sm. 

 But the head is as transverse on the vertex and with the hind angles 

 as sharp as in M. exaltata, whereas in M. praedatrix the head is 

 rounded laterally behind, and as the large eyes reach the hind 

 margin, there are no genae. 



MlTILLA GUANDA, Sp. n. 



5 . Black, with the thorax red, abdomen with a divided patch of 

 flavescent pubescence on the hind border of the first segment, and a 



