Neio or little knoivii South African MutillidcB (Hymenoptera) . 407 



hairy white ; wings hyaline at base and narrowly so at apex, black 

 in the centre. 



Head deeply foveate, nearly as long as broad, much rounded 

 behind the eyes, the basal margin being on that account plainly 

 arcuate ; eyes large, incised inwardly, front with a median longi- 

 tudinal carina below the antennal tubercles, second antennal joint 

 very small ; anterior part of pronotum slightly narrower than the 

 head, gradually ampliated laterally towards the tegulse, both the 

 anterior and posterior angles are quite rounded and the suture is 

 hardly distinct ; mesonotum convex and without visible longitudinal 

 grooves ; scutellum highly tuberculate, sub-cuneiform, metanotum 

 strongly sloping, rounded laterally and broadly reticulate, while the 

 pro- and mesonotum are longitudinally and irregularly foveolate 

 striate ; first basal segment short, not quite as broad at the apex 

 as the base of the second, and deeply and roughly punctate, the keel 

 underneath short, dentiform, second segment covered for two-thirds 

 of the length with broad reticulate foveas becoming much smaller 

 towards the apex ; the punctures underneath are rough and uneven ; 

 the other segments are aciculate, and the last one, which has no 

 pygidial area, is more deeply aciculate than the others ; tibige with 

 white spurs ; fore wings hyaline at the base for a fourth of the 

 length ; and at the rounding of the apical part, the rest black or very 

 deep fuscous, no distinct stigma ; radial cell long, acuminate at 

 tip, two closed cubitals and one recurrent nervure received in the 

 middle of the second cubital. 



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



Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg) , A. T. I. Janse. 



MUTILLA FRIANA, n. Sp. 



(? . Black, with the thorax ferruginous red ; second abdominal 

 segment with a narrow, apical, seemingly not interrupted silvery 

 white pubescent band, third segment with a very broad band of the 

 same texture and colour covering nearly the whole surface, but 

 somewhat broadly interrupted longitudinally in the centre ; wings 

 deep fuscous or black but with the basal part hyahne for about one- 

 fourth of the length and a small space at the apex also hyaline, in 

 the first radial cell is a median, small, somewhat rounded trans- 

 parent patch ; body covered with a greyish white pubescence and 

 erect hairs intermingled with black ones which on the upper side 

 are more numerous than the white. 



Head closely and irregularly scrobiculatc, smaller than the thorax, 



