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Nearest to C. zoheidaj Du Buyss, of ^vhich it may be an extreme 

 variety; but it is apparently distinct from a specimen of C. zoleida 

 from Aden given me by Colonel Yerbury. 



Family Mutillid^, Leach. 

 5. Mutilla fumipennisy sp. nov., pi. A.f. 6. 



t. Head and thorax somewhat coarsely punctured, the clypeusj 

 front sides of the face, cheeks, sides of the pronotum and median seg- 

 ment above with dense matted pubescence, the front above the base of 

 the antenna raised, tuberculate, giving to the face close to the lower 

 portion of the inner orbits and the sides of the clypeus an appearance 

 of beino- hollowed out, a short vertical carina from the anterior ocellus 

 not reacbino- the base of the antenupe ; mesonotum with two medial 

 lono-ltudinal furrows, scutellum excavate at base, produced posteriorly 

 into a cone, the apex tuberculate, shining ; median segment strongly 

 depressed with the sides somewhat flat, above meeting along the medial 

 line of the segment at an angle and forming a well-marked longitudinal 

 carina ; legs and abdomen thinly pubescent, the 2nd segment of the latter 

 finely and evenly punctured above, the remaining segments obsoletely 

 punctured towards their apical margins, apical segment with a faintly 

 defined medial longitudinal carina, 1st ventral segment with a highly 

 raised longitudinal carina forming a thin sub-triangular plate the 

 anterior edge of which is deeply emarginate. Black, the pubescence 

 silvery forming a broad medially interrupted band on the apical 

 maro-in of the 2nd abdominal segment, the 1st and basal four-fifths 

 of the 2nd segment of the abdomen red ; wings, basal half of forewing 

 deep yellow, of hind wing clear hyaline, apical portions of both wings 

 deep fuscous, tegulre black, very large, smooth and shining, nervures 

 yellow on the yellow or hyaline and fuscous on the dark portions of 

 the wings. 



$. Length 12 : crp. 21 mm. 



Ilah. Deesa. 



Family Pompilid^, Leach. 



6. Pseiidagenia glabra, sp. nov. 



9 (^ Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, brilliantly polished and 



shining, entirely impunctate ; clypeus transverse, slightly convex, its 



anterior margin straight ; mesonotum wide, convex ; median segment 



rounded posteriorly with a gentle slope to the apex, which is emargin- 



