Neio or little known South African Mutillidce (Hymenoptera). 395 



as broad, and plainly gibbose, the anterior border of the pronotum is 

 straight and the sides widely slanting, all the angles being distinct ; 

 at the base it is one- third wider across than at the anterior border, 

 from there it is nearly straight laterally but it tapers slightly towards 

 the metanotum which is only gradually sloping and simple, the 

 pleurse are strongly dentate behind ; it is covered with broad foveae 

 separated by a sharp but narrow wall ; basal segment dentate on 

 each side, dilated and fitting against the ovate very convex second 

 segment, and with two minute teeth underneath, second segment 

 covered with elongated punctures somewhat striolate in the anterior 

 part; hind tibi;© without rows of spines ; spurs white. 



Length 3|- mm. ; width 1|- mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali), A. Bodong. 



MUTILLA SEGKOMA, n. Sp. 



5 . Eed, with the basal part of the first and the whole of the 

 second and third abdominal segments black ; head, prothorax and 

 legs clothed with a dense, appressed, silky yellow pubescence with 

 which are interspersed long fiavescent setae ; abdomen sessile, first 

 segment with a border of golden-yellow pubescence becoming broader 

 and patch-like in the middle where it impinges on the anterior edge 

 of the second segment, which, like the third, has also at apex a broad 

 border broadly triangularly dilated in the centre ; the sides are also 

 clothed but less densely with a yellowish pubescence, and the two 

 apical segments are equally yellow pubescent on the upper side. 



Head broader than the anterior part of the prothorax, and about 

 equal to the posterior, closely pitted, rounded, eyes very large, no 

 space behind them ; antennal tubercles moderately rounded, second 

 autennal joint one-third smaller than the third ; thorax nearly 

 straight in front with the angles sharp, parallel for about a third of 

 the length, slightly narrowed laterally from the suture of the 

 pronotum to that of the metanotum, the latter is slightly broader 

 than the former ; the sides are serrulate, and those of the vertically 

 declivous metanotum have three distinct spines on each side ; first 

 abdominal segment with a long tooth on each side, and a conspicuous 

 keel underneath ; it is about half the length of the second, very little 

 narrower at apex, and they are both strongly punctate, the punctures 

 on the other segments and on the under side are smaller ; last 

 abdominal segment somewhat convex, no distinct pygidial area ; 

 posterior tibiae each with a double row of four spines ; spurs white. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 



