Notes on Soutit- African Mutillidac. 349 



arnpliated hind part of the rnetanotum, as well as by the sculpture, 

 especially of the second abdominal segment which is conspicuously 

 carinate longitudinally in 0. ovata, whereas it is only cicatricose 

 punctate in 0. leshnma. 



It is probable that 0. leshnma replaces 0. ovata in Southern 

 Rhodesia. 



ODONTOMUTILLA OVATA, Rad. & Sich. 

 Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 1869, p. 84. 



M. oxyroe (mecjaera, olim), Pering., Ann. S. Afr. Mus. i. 1899, 

 p. 353. 



$ . Black, with the thorax red ; first and third abdominal 

 segments with a white pubescent band interrupted in the centre ; 

 head transverse, very little arcuate behind, eyes large, deeply 

 emarginate, genae half the length of the eyes, posterior angles very 

 little rounded, surface foveate reticulate ; thorax slightly broader in 

 front than the head, nearly straight at apex with the angles very 

 sharp, mesonotum convex, scutellum carinate, dentate laterally on 

 each side, sinuate in the centre, metanotum diagonally ampliated 

 laterally from a third of the length with the angles strongly pro- 

 jecting but not quite acute ; the surface of the pronotum, mesonotum, 

 and scutellum is deeply foveate almost reticulate longitudinally, 

 metanotum broadly reticulate ; elytra fuscous, slightly hyaline at 

 base ; abdomen sessile, first segment with a short carina emarginate 

 in the middle underneath, second segment conspicuously carinate 

 reticulate longitudinally from the base to three-fourths of the length, 

 the cariuae enclose long, ovate punctures, but disappear on the last 

 fourth part of the length which is more distinctly foveolate, the 

 pubescence is black above and greyish white underneath ; legs 

 bristling with white and black rigid setae, hind tibiae simple, 

 spurs white. 



Length 12J mm. to 14 mm. ; expanse of wings 23 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town), Ledoux ; (Port St. John, 

 Dunbrody), Father J. O'Neil. 



Ml T TILLA YAMBANA, sp. 11. 



c? . Black, with the second segment of the abdomen red. Head 

 transverse quadrate with the posterior angles sharp, eyes large, 

 deeply emarginate, whole surface clothed with a very dense silvery 

 white pubescence ; antennae) with all the joints arcuate ; the third half 

 the length of the fourth; thorax of the normal Mntilla shape, with 



