Ncio or little known South African MutillidcB {Hymcnoptcra). 403 



sloping, the surface of these three parts is roughly reticulate foveo- 

 late, metanotum convex, short, rounded laterally and covered with 

 regular fovese ; tegulse punctulate and densely hairy ; ahdomen sub- 

 sessile, peduncle short and with a short but sharp keel slightly 

 sinuate in the centre and truncate at each end, punctures of the first 

 two basal segments simple and closely set, those of the following 

 segments also closely set, but finer, those of the last segment very 

 elongated and somewhat strigillate laterally ; tibial spurs white ; 

 wings with the stigma hardly distinct, radial cell moderately elon- 

 gated, sub-truncate at tip ; three closed cubital cells and two recur- 

 rent nervures, the first abutting to the middle of the second and the 

 other past the middle of the third cell. 



Length 13-15 mm. ; width (wings expanded) 24-26 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Waterberg), Pretoria Museum. 



Allied to M. purpurata, Sm., and M. psamatJie, Per. 



MUTILLA SABINA, n. Sp. 



S . Black, with the two basal segments of the abdomen red, 

 clothed all over and under, legs included, with very dense white 

 villose hairs ; mesonotum bearing also a yellowish white appressed 

 pubescence, all the abdominal segments with a thick fringe of white 

 hairs, third segment covered by a band of silky white pubescence 

 triangularly interrupted in the centre ; scutellum with a bunch of 

 white hairs at apex ; abdomen sub-sessile ; wings infuscate. 



Head slightly broader than the pronotum, narrow on the vertex, 

 being there nearly twice as long as broad, truncate behind with the 

 angles distinct ; closely foveolate punctate and clothed on the centre 

 of the vertex and in front with long, dense white hairs ; eyes large, 

 deeply incised in the inner part, space behind them long ; labrum 

 with a quadrate carinate smooth, shiny impression ; antennal 

 tubercles small, first joint with a very plain, sharp spine in the inner 

 part of the apex, third joint very small, less than one-third the 

 length of the fourth ; pronotum slightly sloping in front, not much 

 ampliated laterally towards the tegulse which are black, suture 

 carinate, mesonotum convex, with two plain median longitudinal 

 grooves and two carinte ; scutellum convex, simple, metanotum 

 convex, then vertical, rounded laterally and also at apex, broadly 

 reticulate, the remainder of the thorax being deeply foveate punc- 

 tate ; first abdominal segment not quite as broad at apex as the base 

 of the second, the carina underneath short, sharp at each end ; all 

 the segments closely punctate, the punctures on the last which 



