Ne7u or little knoiun South African MutillidcB (Hymenoptera). 405 



second slightly past the centre of the second and third cell respec- 

 tively. 



Length 9h mm ; width (wings expanded) 14 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town), Master L. P6ringuey. 



The shape and livery are those of M. dciopeia, P6r., but the 

 abdomen is sub-sessile instead of being petiolate, the punctuation 

 is much less rough, and the anterior wings have three closed cubital 

 cells and two recurrent nervures instead of two cells and one nervure 

 as in M. dciopeia. 



MUTILLA BIZANA, n. sp. 



^ . Not unlike in general facies, neuration, and colouring of 

 wings the preceding species, but the space behind the eyes is longer 

 than in ill. umtata, the eyes are more distinctly, although only 

 slightly, emarginate in the inner side, the mandibles are not so 

 much developed, and being less concave do not project beyond 

 the labrum, and the tubercles are blunter; the mesonotum, tegulae, 

 and scutellum only are ferruginous red, and the former has no 

 longitudinal groove ; the metanotum is shorter and quite vertical 

 instead of being convex, and the sculpture of the upper side of the 

 thorax is rougher ; the abdomen is more sessile, the first joint being 

 shorter and broader than in M. ttmtata, and the keel underneath is 

 shorter, the second segment has underneath a small depression on 

 each side separated in the centre by a very small tubercle ; the 

 flavescent whitish bands at the apex of the first, second, and third 

 segments are identical with those of M. umtata, but on the fourth 

 this band is reduced to a central patch ; all the segments are more 

 closely punctate, the intervals between the punctures on the second 

 segment are slightly raised instead of being smooth, the last seg- 

 ment is scrobiculate as in M. umtata and without any pygidial area, 

 and the tibial spurs are black instead of being white. 



Length 11 mm. ; width (wings expanded) 19 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira), P. A. Sheppard. 



MUTILLA AKAPHE, n. Sp. 



3 . Black, shiny ; head and prothorax clothed with a somewhat 

 sparse silky white villosity particularly noticeable at the apex of the 

 scutellum and on the sides of the metanotum ; abdomen sub-sessile, 

 third segment with a lateral patch of white pubescence of the same 

 width as the denuded median part ; wings infuscate. My example 

 is, however, probably rubljed. 



