342 Anna Is of tlic SoutJi African Museum. 



and metanofcum clothed with a thick white pubescence. Head 

 transverse, eyes large, lateral, emarginate, genae projecting slightly 

 beyond the eyes, mandibles trifid at end, hollowed inwardly, strongly 

 dentate underneath in the middle ; surface closely foveolate 

 punctate, forehead with a thick bunch of white hairs between the 

 antennae which are robust, and in which the third joint is of the 

 same length as the fourth ; thorax convex on the mesonotum, 

 the scutellum sub-orbicular and fringed with dense long silky white 

 hairs, metanotum a little narrower than the pronotum, much 

 rounded laterally behind and entirely clothed above and on the 

 sides with a very dense white pubescence ; wings deep fuscous, 

 tegullae also fuscous ; abdomen sessile, ventral carina of the first 

 segment long, ending in a small tooth, second segment covered with 

 foveolate punctures, the posterior black band extends to about one- 

 quarter of the surface, the other segments are closely punctate 

 above and below ; legs bristling with whitish hairs, hind tibiae 

 spinose, spurs long, white. 



Length 12 mm. ; expanse of wings 24 mm. 



Huh. Transvaal (Barberton), H. Edwards ; Zululand (M'Fongosi), 

 W. E. Jones. 



A close ally to M. tecmcssa, Per. ; but without the narrow white 

 band on the second abdominal segment, and with a broad black 

 border on the same joint ; the whole metanotum is clothed with a 

 white pubescence ; the foveate punctures on the second abdominal 

 segment are a little broader than in M. tecmessa, Per. 



Both M. mogamba and M. tecmcssa belong in all likelihood to the 

 M. exaltata, Sm., group. 



MUTILLA KATANGA, Sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the second and third abdominal segments red, 

 these second and third segments are densely fimbriate with white 

 hairs which are not quite dense enough to form a band in the only 

 example I have as yet seen. Head conspicuously rounded laterally 

 behind from the base of the eyes which are deeply emarginate, 

 surface closely pitted, and clothed with very dense erect white hairs ; 

 antennae robust, third joint as long as the fourth ; thorax with the 

 metanotum sub-quadrate but with the angles bluntly rounded and 

 very slightly wider at the apex of the declivity than the pronotum, 

 mesonotum very convex, scutellum rounded, fringed with long, 

 white hairs, surface closely and deeply foveolate punctate, that of 

 the metanotum broadly reticulate ; abdomen sessile, first segment 



