390 



tlmherlak^i before me, one has the apical segment black and 

 the other is dark only at the apex. 



03. A New Xitelixe Gkxus from South Africa. 



Mutillonitela new genus. 



Head transverse, oblong, the eyes elongate, convergent above oc- 

 cupying the entire side of the head from the vertex to the base of 

 the mandible. Mandibles edentate, strongly notched before the middle. 

 Clypeus transverse, broadly expanded in front, entire along the whole 

 margin, with about six strong flattened blunt parallel spines beneath 

 the margin in the middle. Antennae inserted just above the clypeus, 

 the sockets in a line with the anterior margin of the eyes, scape stout 

 and excavated at apex. Ocelli in an obtuse triangle, the hind ocelli 

 in front of the summit of the eyes. A deep fovea between the ocelli 

 and eye margin, wings somewhat abbreviated with completely closed 

 costal, median, submedian, one cubital, one discoidal, and brachial cell. 

 Radial cell very short, variably open at apex or closed, barely extending 

 beyond the apex of the short first cubital cell, nervulus inserted before 

 the basal, nervellus far before the margin of the radiellus. 



Hind and middle tibiae spinose, the anterior tibiae of female witii 

 a well developed tarsal comb. 



Abdomen of female without a defined pygidial aren. 



Head and thorax clothed with two kinds of pubescence, peculiar 

 erect setae and the ordinary fine pubescence. Wings strongly pubes- 

 cent, subhyaline to l)eyon(l the venation then strongly infuscate. 



Related to Saliostctlnis and Miscoplwidcs of Brauns but differs by 

 the venation. 



Type: Mutilloiiitria niiniica Bridwell. 



Mutillonitela mimica n. sp 



Female : Length 5 mm. ; wing 3 mm. more or less. 



Black ; legs, venter of abdomen and apical tergite dull ferruginous, 

 ihe abdominal color darker ; posterior margin of scutellum. mentano- 

 tum and outer half of wing base whitish ; anterior calcar pale ; middle 

 (1) and hind (2) calcaria black; mandibles yellowish ferruginous at 

 base, piceous apically ; antennae lirownish ; venation of wing yellowish. 



Face, front, vertex, pronoturn and mesonotum with stout erect yellow- 

 ish setae, mingled on the head and thorax above with finer silvery 

 pile; coarse silvery hairs on mesopleura. propodeum. epipleura of 

 tergite one. sternite two on the sides and margins of tergites and 

 sternites. 



Head, pronotum. mesonotum, scutellum, mesopleura ;iii(l mctano- 

 tum opaque and granular. 



Collar about twice as broad as long, rounded down to the declivity ; 

 propodeum without a well defined basal area, the superior face with a 



