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MUTILLA GAZA, n. Sp. 



? . Totally black, with the base of the femora and knees, the 

 antennal tubercles and the second to fourth antennal joints fuscous 

 rufescent ; abdomen sub-sessile, second segment with an elongated, 

 median, not dense patch of flavescent greyish hairs reaching from 

 the anterior border to about the middle, and a moderately broad, 

 denser band of the same colour along the apical border, the last 

 segment has a bunch of greyish sub-fiavescent, long hairs on each 

 side of the upper part. The head and prothorax are covered with a 

 very short and not easily distinguished black pubescence and 

 bristling with long, black setae ; the abdomen is equally setose, but 

 the setae are greyish white, interspersed with them are a few 

 black ones. 



Head longer than broad, eyes large, horizontal, very bulging, 

 reaching behind almost to the broadly rounded border; antennal 

 tubercles elongated, rounded, second antennal joint very short, being 

 half the length of the third which is also short ; whole su)-face closely 

 and regularly pitted ; prothorax very slightly sloping on each side 

 on the anterior border of the pronotum without however being 

 arcuate, and with the outer angles distinct, straight laterally but 

 gradually narrowing towards the vertical declivity of the meta- 

 notum where it is about one-fifth narrower than at the apex ; it is 

 moderately convex, with the metanotum abruptly declivous and 

 simple, and more widely and somewhat more irregularly pitted than 

 on the head ; basal segment with an uninterrupted keel under- 

 neath ; all the segments are very closely punctate, the punctures on 

 the second segment being wider than on the others, and there are no 

 traces of striation ; hind tibiae with a double row of three spines, 

 spurs whitish. 



Length 6^^ mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hab. JMozambique (Amatongas), A. P. Sheppard. 



Andr6 has attributed to his Bhopaloiimtilla clavicornis (Zeitsch. f. 

 Hym., 1901, p. 323) a ^ which I suspect to be that of M. gaza. 

 Both gaza ? and clavicornis ^ were captured in the same locality 

 and the same day by Mr. Sheppard. It does not follow, however, 

 that because " captured together " the sexes were actually wi copula. 



MUTILLA AMALITA, n. sp. 



? . Body short and somewhat massive ; black, the dorsal part of 

 the thorax with the exception of the infuscate anterior and posterior 



