396 Annals of the South African Miiseum. 



MUTILLA INKONA, n. Sp. 



? . Black, with the prothorax red ; abdomen sub-sessile, second 

 abdominal segment with two equi-distant white ovate spots each 

 situated between the centre and the sides, third and fourth covered 

 with a white band broadly interrupted in the centre, and not 

 reaching completely the sides, basal part of apical segment densely 

 pubescent white, pygidial area denuded, closely punctate ; it is 

 clothed on the head and prothorax with a moderately dense greyish 

 pubescence intermixed with numerous long stiff whitish bristles 

 especially numerous on the abdomen ; legs very hairy. 



Head slightly broader than the prothorax, deeply, closely and 

 broadly punctate, eyes fairly large, equi-distant from the base of 

 the mandibles and the posterior part which is moderately broadly 

 rounded ; antennae thick, second and third joints short, equal in 

 length ; thorax sub-parallel, about one-third longer than broad, quite 

 parallel from the anterior border of the pronotum which is nearly 

 straight with the angles very sharp to about one-fourth of the whole 

 length, it then becomes slightly narrow, but is still parallel as far as 

 the metanotum which bulges a little but is not much wider than the 

 pronotum and is abruptly declivous, the whole declivity, sides 

 included, being tuberculate dentate, the back is deeply and roughly 

 reticulate longitudinally, and the lateral margin irregularly serrate; 

 abdomen elongate ovate, peduncle of first segment short, the carina 

 ending in a distinct spine underneath, and plainly dentate on each 

 side, the apical part of the segment is almost as broad as the second 

 which is plainly striolate longitudinally on the upper side, and 

 deeply punctate but simple underneath, other segments deeply but 

 more finely punctate, pygidium very closely aciculate ; posterior 

 tibiae each with a double series of four spines ; spui-s white. 



Length 6-8 mm. ; width 2-3 mm. 



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



MUTILLA AMATONGA, U. Sp. 



? . Head and abdomen black, antennae, thorax, and legs ferrugi- 

 nous red ; clothed on the head, prothorax, and legs with a flavescent, 

 more or less appressed silky pubescence intermingled with long 

 whitish erect setae ; abdomen sub-sessile, bristling with white setae, 

 on the second segment are three white silky patches, the first one 

 situated in the centre extends from near the anterior border, which 

 it does not always reach, however, to about the middle and is 

 parallel ; on each side of this band but slightly nearer to the sides 



