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lar; scutellar scale wanting; tibiae and tarsi strongly spinose, the 

 spines black; calcaria white, pectinated within; first segment of 



abdomen constricted at apex, beneath with a 

 strong, bidentate or emarginate carina ; second 

 ventral with a short, median, longitudinal 

 carina basally and together with the sides of 

 its dorsal moiety with large separated punc- 

 tures, those of the remaining ventrals much 

 finer and closer, pygidial area large, convex, 

 longitudinally striato-punctate, the sculptures 

 strongest basally and becoming obsolete at 

 Fig. 1. apex. Length (without head) 10 mm. 



Abdominal markings, One specimen, from which the head is, un- 

 Mutilla somalica. fortunately, missing. The maculation of the 

 second dorsal segment is apparently so different from any of the 

 African Mutillids that I have thought it well to describe the species, 

 even though the specimen be in poor condition. 

 From Finik, December 15, 1894, 



SCOLIIDJE. 



Soolia ruficornis Fabr. 



Two 9 and two $ specimens, Hargesa and TheHaud, July 21 ; 

 Sheikh Huseiu, October 3, 1894. 



Ells aureola Klug, 



Two females from Sheikh Husein, collected on September 21 and 

 27. 

 Cosila Donaldsoni n. sp, 



9 . — Deep black, shining, the last two abdominal segments ru- 

 fous ; wings black, strongly violaceous ; pubescence grayish ; head 

 strongly punctured, closely so on the front, sparsely on the vertex 

 and occiput; clypeus more finely punctured than the front, some- 

 what carinate down the middle, its anterior margin tridentate ; man- 

 dibles scarcely punctured, scape and pedicellum shining, sparsely 

 punctured, the flagellum opaque, the joints slightly prominent at 

 apex beneath ; ocelli deeply pitted, indistinct ; pronotum scabrous ; 

 dorsulum with irregular, coarse punctures, transversely smooth just 

 behind the pronotum, and a little shorter than the scutellum ; scu- 

 tellum scabrous, somewhat triangular, truncate posteriorly ; middle 

 segment above very finely striato-punctate, becoming more coarsely 

 so posteriorly ; posterior face with shallow punctures and indistinct 



