New or little hioicn South African MutillidcB {Hymenoptcra) . 387 



vertical there, and overhanging the base of the metanotum which is 

 slanting, rounded and carinate laterally, bears four distinct longi- 

 tudinal keels in the centre, and is irregularly and not deeply punc- 

 tate ; tegulae closely punctate ; first abdominal segment strongly 

 petiolate, covered with deep foveolate punctures and having under- 

 neath a weak keel, second segment ampliate ovate, covered with very 

 closely set, round, simple punctures, these punctures are coarser on 

 the other segments, and become very elongated on the last joint 

 which is entirely covered with them ; wings with the radial cell large 

 and not truncate at apex, two cubital closed cells and a third weakly 

 indicated, first recurrent nervure reaching the middle of the second 

 cell, if the third were better defined, the second recurrent, also ill- 

 defined, would reach its external edge ; tibial spurs white. 



Eesembles in some characters B. anguliceps, Andr., but is a dis- 

 tinct species. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width (wings expanded) 17-19 mm. 



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



MuTiLLA (Dasylabris) kandla, n. sp. 



(? . Black, with the wings very deeply infuscate from base to 

 apex, clothed with a dense appressed pubescence silky white on the 

 front and vertex, under side, and legs, black on the rest of the body 

 and interspersed with very numerous, somewhat dense, long setae of 

 the same colour ; abdomen sub-petiolate, first and second segments 

 with a narrow silky white pubescent band, set on the apical border, 

 third segment with a broad similar band interrupted in the centre 

 but not along the edge, fourth segment with a small, lateral white 

 patch, and a conspicuous sub-quadrate one in the centre of the two 

 segments following, apical one without any white pubescence or 

 white hairs. Head deeply and somewhat coarsely foveolate punc- 

 tate, little broader than the apex of the thorax, with the base very 

 slightly arcuate and the corners moderately rounded, space behind 

 the eyes moderately long, eyes not emarginate inwardly ; second 

 antennal joint about half the length of the third ; thorax closely 

 punctate on the upper anterior part, pronotum with the anterior 

 border very slightly arcuate backwards and a little ampliated 

 diagonally towards the tegulye, the suture with the mesosternum 

 conspicuous, carinate ; mesosternum without longitudinal keels ; 

 scutellum divided from the mesosternum by a deep transverse 

 groove, short, very sloping, and having on each side of the basal 

 part a sharp conical horizontal tubercle ; the strongly sloping meta- 



