New or little known South African Mutillidce {Hymenoptcra). 401 



curved basal one sub-rufeseent, second joint one-third shorter than 

 the third ; thorax covered with contiguous alveolae, one-third longer 

 than broad, parallel for half the length, then constricted laterally at 

 the junction with the metanotum, the latter also parallel but slightly 

 narrower, convex, without any posterior angles and falling vertically, 

 the anterior border of the pronotum is straight with the angles blunt 

 but not quite rounded, the suture with the mesosternum is not very 

 distinct, but that with the metasternum is deeply grooved, the 

 scutellary region is very transverse, but otherwise indistinct ; 

 abdomen ovate, briefly pedunculate, the very short peduncle is 

 dentate on each side and almost sub-sessile, but broadening so as to 

 be at apex some four-fifths of the basal width of the second which is 

 plainly ovate, and bears from the base to past the median part 

 numerous wavy longitudinal costules somewhat broadly separated 

 from each other ; the other segments are rugulose, there is no 

 pygidial area, the peduncle is carinate underneath, and the second 

 segment bears a very distinct basal elongated and carinate tubercle ; 

 hind tibiae not denticulate outwardly. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 2 J mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Shilouvane), Eev. H. Junod. 



MUTILLA ANDREANA, n. sp. 



S . Black, clothed with an extremely dense and long white 

 pubescence, especially long on the scutellum ; abdomen sub-sessile, 

 the first abdominal segment has a narrow apical silky white band, 

 the four segments following are clothed with an appressed white 

 pubescence, the two apical ones are not pubescent ; wings light 

 fuscous. 



Head plainly transverse, slightly broader than the anterior border 

 of the pronotum, covered with contiguous, deep, slightly irregular 

 punctures, clothed with a white erect pubescence especially dense in 

 the frontal part ; eyes very large, deeply incised inwardly, set nearer 

 to the insertion of the mandibles than to the basal margin which is 

 nearly straight with the angles obtuse but yet distinct ; antennal 

 tubercles prominent, second joint very small, not half the length of 

 the third which is also short, fifth, sixth, and seventh massive, the 

 latter slightly contorted and depressed underneath ; anterior part of 

 thorax covered with deep, irregular sub-foveate punctures broader 

 and deeper than those on the head ; metanotum more broadly 

 foveate ; pronotum nearly straight in front, but with the angles 

 rounded and the suture deep ; mesonotum convex, very distinctly 



