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straight, the angles faWy distinct ; it is bristling with long black 

 setae turning to white behind, and is longitudinally furrowed, the 

 furrows are uneven and filled with irregular, somewhat large foveas ; 

 dorsal part of basal abdominal segment conspicuously granular, the 

 other segments closely punctate but not striolate, second segment 

 with a short compressed tubercle underneath ; legs densely hairy, 

 the hairs flavescent white, hind tibiae with a double row of five 

 spines ; spurs white. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



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



MUTILLA BATAWANA, n. sp. 



? . Light red, with only one-half of the upper part of the 

 abdominal segment black ; abdomen sub-sessile, second segment 

 with three large, ovate, white flavescent patches, a median and two 

 lateral ones narrowly separated, and a posterior band sub-triangular 

 in the centre ; the other segments covered with a similar band except 

 the last one, which is partly denuded. 



Head, prothorax, and legs clothed with a somewhat dense, 

 appressed whitish flavescent pubescence and long setae ; head 

 broader than long and wider than the anterior part of the thorax, 

 eyes large, space behind the eyes moderately long with the angles 

 rounded but distinct, the base somewhat emarginate in the centre ; 

 antennal tubercles smooth, rounded, second antennal joint one-third 

 the length of the third, front and vertex roughly punctate ; thorax 

 sub-parallel, one-third longer than broad, only slightly bi'oader across 

 the metanotum than across the pronotum, the anterior border of 

 which is nearly straight but slightly sinuate laterally on each side 

 with the anterior angles acute, the hind angle is also sharp and dis- 

 tinct laterally, the metanotum is vertically truncate with the angles 

 somewhat obtuse but distinct ; it is somewhat reticulate punctate, 

 but the declivity is more distinctly foveolate ; the elongate ovate 

 abdomen is very hairy above and under, the basal joint is short, 

 moderately broadening, and bears no distinct keel underneath, the 

 second segment which is deeply and closely punctate is black, but 

 in the centre only, the two lateral patches being on a rufescent 

 background, and is closely punctate ; the last segment is very finely 

 punctate, not strigillate ; posterior tibiaa each with a double row of 

 four teeth ; spurs white. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 



