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angles red ; antennae and legs brick-red ; it is covered with a short 

 sub-flavescent pubescence and with somewhat sparse greyish and 

 black bristles ; the abdomen is sessile, the second has a median 

 basal flavescent ovate patch and a somewhat narrow apical fringe of 

 whitish flavescent pubescence slightly dilated as a triangle in the 

 centre, the other segments have a similar but very narrow fringe, 

 apical segment without any distinct pygidial area. 



Antennae thick, antennal tubercles elongated, rounded, second 

 joint less than half the length of the third ; head transverse, covered 

 with contiguous round foveolate punctures, eyes large, long, set near 

 the hind part the angles of which are much rounded ; thorax twice 

 as long as broad, nearly straight except for a slight inward curve in 

 front, and with the anterior angles distinct, somewhat convex in the 

 anterior and median part, parallel for about two- thirds of the length, 

 and with two distinct lateral constrictions there, metanotum am- 

 pliated, bluntly rounded laterally, vertically declivous and having 

 on the edge of the declivity a median, sharp tubercle, the dorsal part 

 and also the pleurae are covered with round foveolate punctures ; 

 abdomen ampliate ovate, quite sessile, the basal segment being 

 invisible from above, and simple underneath ; the second segment 

 which is as broad as long is covered with contiguous round punctures, 

 the other segments are also closely punctate ; hind tibia) with a 

 double series each of three spines. 



Length 3^ mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira), P. A. Sheppard. 



In the only example of this species seen by me the apical border 

 of the second segment on which the narrow wide band extends is 

 rufescent. 



MUTILLA MATOLA, n. Sp. 



? . Black, with the thorax red and the legs fuscous rufescent ; 

 abdomen sub-sessile or very briefly pedunculate, the first segment 

 bears a broad apical band of silky white pubescence, and the second 

 an apical slightly flavescent band narrowly interrupted in the centre, 

 reaching the sides but narrowing gradually towards that part ; the 

 third segment has a similar band but more broadly opened in the 

 centre, this band is indistinct on the other segments, and there is no 

 visible pygidial area. 



Head about as long as broad, eyes large, equi-distant from the 

 insertion of the mandibles and from the hind part which is quite 

 rounded ; it is deeply and closely pitted, somewhat densely white 

 pubescent and with numerous black bristles ; antennal tubercles not 

 prominent ; thorax very elongated, being nearly three times as long 



