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angular on each side behind, and having two median longitudinal 

 grooves ; scutellum simple, convex, sloping ; metanotum very short, 

 convex, very declivous, and rounded laterally, and veiy densely 

 hairy white ; abdomen very closely punctate above except on the 

 apical segment where the punctures are very rough and very closely 

 set and leave no visible pygidial area ; underneath the punctures are 

 more scattered and slightly broader ; the short basal segment is not 

 as broad at apex as the base of the ampliate ovate second one, the 

 keel underneath is not strongly defined ; legs clothed with a thick 

 white pubescence ; spurs of tibiae white ; anterior wings with a well- 

 developed stigma, radial cell not truncate at apex but not very 

 sharp, three closed cubital and two recurrent nervures received 

 respectively in the centre of the second cubital and past the middle 

 of the third. 



Length 11 mm. ; width (wings expanded) 18 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Beira), P. A. Sbeppard. 



Allied to M. atrata, Sm., and closely resembling M. adelpha, 

 Andre, which I have also received from Beira, but captured in 

 November, while andreana was captured in February. 



MUTILLA UMTATA, n. sp. 



(? . Black, with the pronotum, mesonotum, and scutellum dark 

 ferruginous red, wings infuscate, anterior part sub-violaceous ; 

 abdomen sub-sessile, the first four basal segments having on the 

 apical border a moderately broad sub-rufescent whitish band ; head 

 clothed with a very dense partly appressed partly erect flavescent 

 whitish pubescence ; thorax more sparsely, abdomen and legs densely 

 villose, the hairs greyish white. 



Head transverse, eyes large, hardly emarginate in the inner part, 

 nearly equi-distant from the basal margin which is almost straight 

 and very rounded at the angles than from the point of insertion of the 

 mandibles which are broadly concave, forcipate and three-dentate at 

 apex and dentate outwardly at about the middle, the tooth of the 

 left jaw is bifid ; first antennal joint densely setose, the tubercles 

 well developed and somewhat acute, and the second joint one-third 

 the length of the third; ocelli set close together and moderately 

 distinct, front and vertex closely pitted ; thorax sub-parallel but 

 somewhat deeply sinuate laterally past the scutellary region, pro- 

 sternum narrow, somewhat arcuate, with the angles obtusely 

 rounded, suture very distinct, pronotum convex and with two 

 rqedian longitudinal grooves ; scutellum knobby but simple and 



