400 Annals of the South African Museum. 



than the anterior border of the pronotum ; eyes large, the space 

 behind the eyes somewhat short and with the angles briefly 

 rounded; antennal tubercles rounded, second antennal joint shorter 

 than the third ; thorax one-third longer than broad at its greatest 

 width which is at the straight anterior border of the pronotum, con- 

 tracted laterally near the scutellary region where the mesonotum, 

 which is very short, being less than a third of the whole length, is 

 slightly convex, and falls vertically, the sutures dividing the pro- 

 notum, the mesonotum and especially that of the scutellary region 

 are very deep, there are no wings, only a smooth, tubercle-like 

 tegula on each side, and the whole surface is covered with foveate 

 punctures, broader however on the metanotum which is somewhat 

 narrower at apex than the straight anterior border of the pronotum ; 

 abdomen bristling with long black hairs, ovate, briefly pedunculate, 

 the short slender peduncle is dentate on each side, and broadens at 

 apex where it is two-thirds the width of the anterior border of the 

 second, and bears a long, longitudinally emarginate keel, tlie 

 amphate ovate second segment is conspicuously striate longi- 

 tudinally, the striae acute, and the apical part of the other segments 

 are only aciculate, on the pectus and the under side of the abdomen 

 the pubescence is greyish ; pygidial area not striate ; legs with black 

 and greyish hairs mixed, fuscous with the tarsi slightly rufescent, 

 tibial spurs white, hind tibiae each with only two superposed slender 

 teeth. 



Length 7^ mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Constantia), Dr. F. C. Purcell. 



MUTILLA BAMBATA, n. Sp. 



S . Black, with the thorax red and the tibiae and tarsi reddish, 

 clothed on the head and prothorax with an appressed greyish flaves- 

 cent pubescence, and bristling with long, erect black setae ; on the 

 abdomen the somewhat dense setae are black and greyish white, and 

 the long pubescence on the legs is white; on each side of the second 

 abdominal segment is a triangular silky white patch, and the third 

 and fourth are covered by a similar white band reaching from side to 

 side ; tibial spurs rufescent. 



Head narrow, vertical in front, very slightly bi'oader than the 

 anterior part of the thorax; eyes large, somewhat elliptic, not 

 emarginate, space behind the eyes moderately long, angles slightly 

 rounded, whole surface deeply but closely pitted ; antennal tubercles 

 and joints with the exception of the deeply infuscate and much- 



