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the punctures on the mesonotum are divided by longitudinal sharp 

 walls, the metanotum is broadly foveate, and the whole thorax 

 bristles with long, stiff black hairs intermixed with a few greyish 

 ones turning to white along the apex of the metanotum ; abdomen 

 broadly ovate, first segment nearly as broad at apex as the base of 

 the second, almost truncate at the base and with the peduncle very 

 short, the keel underneath is short and not truncate at tip ; second 

 abdominal segment impressed on each side of the base, the two 

 impressions divided by a longitudinal short carinule ; the segments 

 are irregularly punctured, the punctures being round, simple, but on 

 the second segment these punctures are greatly elongated and form 

 a moderately distinct striolation ; tibitc with two or three spines 

 outwardly ; spurs white. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Amatongas), P. A. Sheppard. 



MUTILLA (MyKMILLA) RHODESIA, n. Sp. 



<y . Antennae fuscous rufescent ; head ferruginous red but deeply 

 infuscated between the eyes ; thorax strongly contracted laterally, 

 wholly red ; abdomen black with the peduncle of the first segment 

 reddish, on the hind border of this segment is a transverse, mode- 

 rately broad silky white band which does not reach quite the sides, 

 and is almost connected with a somewhat ovate central patch reach- 

 ing from the edge to about the central part of the second segment 

 which bears also at the apex a somewhat narrow band of silky white 

 pubescence not reaching quite the sides and somewhat broadly 

 interrupted in the centre ; the third segment has a broad basal band 

 of the same colour covering two-thirds of the width, and narrowly 

 interrupted in the centre ; legs fuscous black, but rufescent at the 

 base, tarsi somewhat rufescent, spurs very long, white. 



Head quadrate, as broad as long, the sides behind the eyes nearly 

 straight, and the angles very slightly rounded, distinctly wider than 

 the widest part of the prothorax, deeply and coarsely punctate and 

 covered with a short yellowish white pubescence with which are 

 intermixed black erect hairs, along the base is a fringe of white ones; 

 eyes large, about equi-distant from apex or base ; prothorax twice as 

 long as its widest part, deeply punctate rugose, covered with an 

 appressed, slightly yellow pubescence, and bristling wuth long erect 

 white hairs ; anterior border of pronotum arcuate with the outer 

 angles strongly rounded, separated from the mesonotum which is 

 strongly contracted laterally ; no wings, only a small tubercle on 



