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has no pygidial area, are somewhat rough ; spurs of tibiae white ; 

 wings fuscous but having on the forewing an irregularly diagonal 

 hyaline narrow streak extending diagonally from the first radial to 

 the third discoidal cell ; stigma not distinct, three cubital closed 

 cells, two recurrent nervures received respectively the first in the 

 middle, the second slightly after the middle of the third cubital. 



Length 10^ mm. ; width (wings expanded) 18|^ mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



Allied to M. specidatrix, Sm., and especially to M. zoe, P6r., but 

 easily distinguished by the sculpture of the labrum and the spine of 

 the first antennal joint. In a second example one of these spines is 

 broken off and the other is partly mutilated. 



MUTILLA MANGA, n. Sp. 



<? . Black, clothed with abundant erect greyish hairs intermixed 

 with black ones, the greyish ones are very noticeable on the frontal 

 part, the pronotum, and the scutellum ; abdomen sub-sessile, edge 

 of the second and third segments with a somewhat narrow border 

 of long, silky white, densely set hairs ; wings sub-fuscous ; antennae 

 robust, second joint about one-fourth th€ length of the third ; head 

 as broad as the thorax, base arcuate, the space behind the eyes 

 short, strongly rounded, eyes distinctly incised in the inner part, 

 large, ocelli set far back within two sub-parallel grooves, surface 

 covered with very closely set, somewhat irregular deep punctures ; 

 pronotum straight in front with the angles distinct, slantingly 

 ampliated laterally, about as broad across the base of the meta- 

 notum as on the anterior border of the pronotum, mesosternum 

 plainly convex and bearing two well-defined longitudinal median 

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

 convex, rounded laterally ; the surface of the thorax and tegulae 

 closely punctate, that of the metanotum regularly foveate ; abdomen 

 elongate ovate, first segment dentate on each side with the peduncle 

 very short, broadly ampliated towards the apex which is, however, 

 narrower than the base of the second, keel sinuate in the centre and 

 very sharply dentate at apex, deeply and closely punctate above and 

 under, like the other segments, the punctures somewhat uneven but 

 smooth except on the last segment which shows no pygidial area 

 and where the punctures are very rough ; spurs of tibite white ; 

 wings infuscate, but only slightly so near the base ; radial cell 

 sub-obtuse but not distinctly truncate at apex, three closed cubital 

 and two recurrent nervures received the first slightly in front, the 



