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tridentate at apex, the inferior teeth very little developed, surface 

 roughly pitted, clothed with dense greyish erect hairs ; antennae 

 robust, the basal joint conspicuously grooved inwardly, the third 

 joint not half the length of the fourth ; pronotum straight in front 

 with the angles distinct, thence moderately sloping laterally, 

 metanoturn convex, of the normal shape like the rounded scutelluin 

 which is fringed behind with long whitish hairs, metanotum slightly 

 narrower than the foreborder of the protonum, straight laterally, not 

 attenuate behind, but with the angles broadly rounded, surface 

 villose black, and covered with foveate punctures on the mesotonum 

 and metanotum, the metanotum which is villose white is broadly 

 reticulate ; tegulae red, wings fuscous with the nervures steel blue, 

 but a little paler near the base ; abdomen sessile, first segment with 

 a distinct spine on each side of the base, and somewhat nodose, the 

 carina underneath long, truncate at apex, slightly incised near the 

 base, second segment closely punctate, the punctures not reticulate ; 

 legs villose white, hind tibiae simple, spurs long, white. 



Length 8-11 mm. ; expanse of wings 13-20 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Barberton), H. Edwards ; Zululand 

 (M'Fongosi), W. E. Jones. 



Closely allied to M. plwcbc, Per., but in the latter the pronotum 

 alone and the tegulae are red. 



MUTILLA NONGUA, Sp. 11. 



$ . Black, with the pronotum, mosonotum, scutellum, and t.egulae 

 red, abdomen with the first four segments bearing a narrow 

 flavescent white apical band. 



The description of M. vatua applies almost in its entirety to the 

 present species which is however of larger size ; the pubescent 

 white bands on the first four abdominal segments are plainly defined, 

 but the distinctive character is the sculpture of the second abdominal 

 segment which is strongly reticulate instead of being evenly punctate ; 

 the wings are also more deeply infuscate from base to apex. 



Length 12-13 mm.; expanse of wings 20-23 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Port Shepstone), K. S. Barnard; (Malvern), C. N. 

 Barker. 



MUTILLA MOYANA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the abdominal segments cyaneous, mosonotum 

 and tegulae brick-red, border of the first four abdominal segments 

 with a fringe of dense white hairs forming on each a narrow yet 

 distinct white band ; wings fuscous but paler at the base, and with 



