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and finely punctate, legs with whitish bristles, tibiae spinose, spurs 

 white. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester), F. W. Purcell. 



This species will be easily recognized from its South African 

 congeners by its sculpture, and by the very parallel thorax. 



MUTILLA PELLA, Sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the thorax and the legs red, abdomen with a 

 central ovate flavescent patch extending over the base of the second 

 segment, the latter with a narrow apical flavescent band briefly 

 dilated triangularly in the centre, third segment with a median 

 flavescent patch. Head very slightly wider than the prothorax, eyes 

 large, lateral, genae moderately short, angles not much rounded, 

 base plainly arcuate, surface roughly punctate and clothed with a 

 flavescent pubescence ; antennae moderately robust, the third joint 

 not longer than the fourth ; thorax narrow, twice as long as broad, 

 straight in front with the angles sharp, parallel for a third of the 

 length, there contracted and briefly incised, thence slightly arnpliate, 

 to the same width as the pronotum and with the high angles 

 rounded, the declivity is sloping, and at a short distance from the 

 edge there is a small median tubercle, the surface is covered with 

 slightly wavy, little raised carinules in the intervals of which are 

 irregular foveae, and is clothed with a dense flavescent pubescence. 

 Abdomen sessile, closely strigillate from base to apex ; legs bristling 

 with whitish hairs, hind tibiae spinose, spurs white. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town), L. G. Peringuey. 



This small species will be easily distinguished by its long narrow 

 thorax, as long as in M. decipiens, Sm., but more parallel. 



MUTILLA KANZALA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the thorax red, abdomen with two central, round, 

 orange chitinous spots equi-distant from sides to centre on the 

 second segment, third, fourth, and fifth, each with a narrow pubescent 

 white band. Head not distinctly wider than the thorax ; transverse, 

 the posterior angles little rounded, eyes large, lateral, genae shorter 

 than the eyes ; it is roughly foveate and briefly pubescent ; antennae 

 of the normal shape, third joint hardly longer than the fourth ; 

 thorax one-third longer than broad, parallel, but emarginate from the 

 posterior angle of the pronotum to the second third of the length 



