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feeble longitudinal raised line in a shallow ill defined furrow, surface 

 coarsely tessellate, with feeble radiating striolae basally and transverse 

 ones apically. sides of propodeum obliquely striolate, posterior face nar- 

 row, with a shallow furrow and impressed line above, transversely 

 strongly striolate throughout ; middle and hind tibiae with stout white 

 spines on the outer face as long as the width of the tibiae ; front tarsi 

 grooved beneath, the comb strongly developed; hind and middle tarsi 

 strongly spinose. 



Abdomen with the tergites not contracted at tlie sutures, very fmely 

 strongly punctate, tlie punctures separated by about two or tliree times 

 their diameter. 



Described from two fcMuales eolleeted at" tlio ^lowhraj 

 (iolf Links, Kappenberg', near Capetown, Feb., 1915 (Brid- 

 w(^ll). Typo in the Sonth African Mnsenni, paratyjje in the 

 author's collection. 



Mutillonitela lounsburyi n. sp. 



Female: Similar to mimica. Length 5 mm..; win ; 3 nun. 



Clypeus pale, ferruginous, legs brownish piceous ; scutellum and 

 metanotum black; tergites 1-3 rufescent; apical two-thirds of tergite 6 

 whitish yellow ; sternites 2-6 dark ; pubescence of head much feebler and 

 sparser ; the setae reduced to pointed hairs. 



Pronotum longer, punctate, tlie surface l)etween more transversely 

 rugulose ; mesonotum similar; scutellum witii tlie punctures very dis- 

 tinct, well separated ; mesopleura shining, tlie punctures irregularly 

 disposed; propodeum similar to that of iiiiiiiica I)ut tlie surface more 

 rugose; sides of propodeum sliining witli strong, well separated punc- 

 tures, the posterior face like that of iiii)iiica. 



Abdomen shorter, more compact, first tergite l)roader. tlie punctures 

 larger, stronger and more separated. 



Described from one female collected in the same locality 

 as mimica Feb. -April, 1915 (Bi'idwell). 



Type in the author's colhytiou. 



Both species were taken rnnninii' along the bare sand and 

 resemble closely the small M ii/lllidcc which are found there, 

 until disturbed when tliey e.sca|)e by Hying. I am disposed to 

 consider this a real case of mimicry. A Xyssonid not yet 

 studied was found undei- the same circumstances and even 

 tnore closely resendiling the M iilillidar. 



Xamed in cotiiplinu'iil to ( '. P. Lounsbury, the head i>f 



