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that on the vertex is black. Thorax : the mesothorax covered 

 with confluent punctures, having a central shghtly raised carina, 

 on each side of which is a deep elongate groove, not quite ex- 

 tending to the anterior margin ; wings of a blackish-brown, and 

 having a bright violet iridescence. Abdomen subpetiolate, the 

 second segment ferruginous, shining, punctured at the base ; the 

 sides and the margins of the four apical segments ciliated with 

 ghttering pale pubescence ; beneath, the second segment covered 

 with large distant punctures, the margins of the segments cili- 

 ated with pale ghttering pubescence. 



Hab. West Africa (Wliydah). 



112. MuTiLLA Cyparissa. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 hues.— Head and thorax black, eyes notched, 

 abdomen ferrugnious ; the head and thorax above densely 

 clothed with short bright orange pubescence ; the tegulse covered 

 with, and a line beneath the wings of similar pubescence ; wings 

 yellow-hyahne at the base, the apical half dark fuscous ; the 

 four apical segments of the abdomen black ; the apical margins 

 of all the segments ciliated with short pale glittering pubescence. 



Hab. West Africa (Whydah). 



113. MuTiLLA Charaxus. B.M. 



Male. Length <S lines. — Black, the eyes emarginate ; head 

 and thorax rugose, thinly covered with a scattered lalack pubes- 

 cence ; the mesothorax having a central longitudinal shining 

 carina and a deep elongate groove on each side not reaching the 

 anterior margin ; the scutellum elevated, its apex having a small 

 elevated shining tubercle ; the metathorax covered with large 

 shallow punctures, channeled in the middle, its lateral margms 

 having a raised shining carina ; the wings deep brown, with a 

 bright violet iridescence. Abdomen : the second segment ob- 

 scurely ferruginous, shining and finely punctured, the punctures 

 distant on the middle of the second segment, the third having a 

 yellowish-white fascia, more or less interrupted, on its apical 

 margin. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. (The Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 



114. MuTiLLA Alecto. B.M. 



Male. Length 7i hues. — Black, the eyes emarginate, the 

 mandibles having a ferruginous spot near their tips. The pro- 

 thorax, metathorax and scutellum ferruginous ; the latter ele- 

 vated, and having a grooved carina above, not reaching the base ; 

 the mesothorax rugose, and having a central longitudinal carina 



