344 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Nutilla no/is was originally described from Natal. I have since 

 received specimens from Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo, Empandeni, 

 Salisbury, Sebakwe, Umtali). 



MUTILLA VATUA, Sp. n. 



3 . Black, with the pronotum, mesosternum, scutellary 

 region and tegulae brick-red ; abdomen slightly cyaneous, and 

 with a distinct narrow white band 011 the hind border of the 

 first and second segments, the others fimbriated with white hairs, 

 the hairs not dense enough to form a distinct band ; head trans- 

 verse on the vertex, the base straight, eyes large, emarginate, 

 genae short, only moderately rounded ; vertex closely foveate and 

 briefly pubescent, epistome clothed with a dense silvery pubes- 

 cence, the sides with long, white rigid hairs ; mandibles trifid, 

 forcipatem tooth underside distinct, blunt ; antennae black, robust, 

 the third joint only slightly shorter than the fourth ; thorax 

 closely foveolate punctate and with somewhat scattered white 

 hairs a little more numerous on the scutellary region and on 

 the metanotum which is reticulate black and gradually attenuate 

 rounded laterally behind ; wings slightly infuscate throughout ; 

 abdomen with a faint cyaneous tinge, sessile, first joint distinctly 

 spinose on each side at the base, and with a median carina truncate 

 at each end underneath, sub-foveate punctate, second segment 

 deeply and evenly punctate, without any raised intervals, the other 

 segments somewhat unevenly punctate, legs black, fringed with a 

 few hairs, hind tibiae simple, spurs long, very slender, white. 



Length 8 mm. ; expanse of wings 11 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo). 



Belongs to the group of J/. lobognatha, Andr., and M. umtata, 

 Per. The livery is nearly the same, and so is the shape of the 

 mandibles. It differs from M. umtata, in which the thorax is 

 coloured alike, by the gradually attenuate metanotum which in the 

 former is somewhat ampliate rounded ; the wings are also less 

 deeply infuscate. 



MUTILLA LITETA, sp. n. 



3 . Black, with the pronotum, mesonotum, and tegulae red ; 

 abdomen with a broad white pubescent band on the first segment, 

 a narrow one along the apex of the second, and a broad one on the 

 third and fourth. Head transverse, with the base slightly arcuate, 

 but the angles are very little rounded, eyes very large and very 



