NetD or little hioum South African MutilliclcB {Hyineno2)tera). 397 



than to the centre is an ovate one, the apex of which reaches sHghtly 

 further down than the central, and at the apical border is a very 

 small, triangular central patch coalescing with a white band covering 

 completely the three following segments, the apical one is bare, 

 closely strigillate longitudinally and plainly carinate laterally. 



Head deeply and somewhat roughly pitted, eyes very large and 

 bulging, the space behind short and not broadly rounded ; antennae 

 thick with the central joints broadening, second one much shorter 

 than the third, thorax nearly twice as long as broad, sloping forward 

 from the apex of the metanotum to the anterior part of the pronotum 

 which is slanting on each side of the neck with the outer angles 

 somewhat blunt ; it is nearly parallel, the sides are not crenulate ; 

 the metanotum is abruptly truncate, the sides of the declivity are 

 serrulate, the declivity itself tuberculate, and slightly in front of the 

 declivous part is a transverse, median, little raised ridge ; the whole 

 surface is equally foveolate reticulate ; abdomen closely and mode- 

 rately deeply punctate above and under ; legs very hairy, tibiae of 

 hind legs each with a double series of four rufescent spines. 



Allied to M. partita, Klug. 



Length 6-8 mm. ; width 1|— 2 mm. 



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



MUTILLA UMTALINA, n. Sp. 



$ . Black, with the prothorax ferruginous red ; abdomen elongate 

 ovate, sub-sessile, basal joint with a bunch of fiavescent silky hairs 

 forming a small central patch at the junction with the second seg- 

 ment which has on each side and at about the median part an ovate 

 yellowish silky patch about equi-distant from the centre and the 

 sides, second segment with a broad band of the same colour and 

 substance, narrowly interrupted in the centre ; last segment clothed 

 with whitish fulvescent pubescence, pygidial area finely striate. 



Head somewhat short, sub-quadrate with the hind angles blunt, 

 a little broader than the thorax, prolonged behind the eyes, the 

 latter large, about equi-distant from apex or base ; antennal tubercles 

 sharp ; antennae wanting ; whole surface closely reticulate and briefly 

 fiavidous pubescent ; prothorax nearly twice as long as broad, 

 parallel laterally from the apex to the suture with the metanotum 

 which broadens slightly but is also parallel with the angles some- 

 what blunt but distinct, vertically declivous and having on the upper 

 edge two median conspicuous spines and two smaller ones on each 

 side of these, all equi-distant ; anterior edge of pronotum nearly 



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