Monographie der Mutilliden Afrikas. 675 
„Head and prothorax pale brick-red, legs and antennas rufescent, 
abdomen black with the exception of the first segment wich is brick- 
red; base of the first four abdominal segments bandet with sub- 
flavescent white, second segment with a basal, median patch; head 
deeply pitted, covered with a silky slightly flavescent pubescence 
and pale brownish hairs, eyes large, ovate, very bulging, posterior angles 
of the head slightly rounded; second joint of the flagellum only a 
little longer than one of the following, mandibles sharp at tip, simple; 
prothorax hardly broader at apex than the head, truncate in front, 
gradually attenuate laterally from apex to base where it is about one- 
fourth narrower, a little sinuate laterally and with a sharp projecting 
angle at the beginning of the sinuation, posterior declivity very sloping 
and having at tip a scutellary tubercle; it is covered with deep foveae, 
clothed with long, greyish and white hairs, and the sides of the decli- 
vity are marginate and subserrulate; abdomen pedunculate, first 
segment not very long, nodose at base and having a threedentate 
ventral carina; it is deeply punctate, and has a white, slightly flavescent, 
apical transverse band; the second segment is covered with wavy 
longitudinal raised lines, enclosing elongate, narrow foveae; it bears 
a small comma-shape, whitish patch in the centre of the base, and a 
apıcal triangular band ascending in the middle to about one-quarter 
of its length, third and fourth segments entirely banded with flavescent 
white, apical segment covered with very closely set longitudinal striae, 
and with some of the intervals slightly raised, extreme apical part 
aciculate; legs clothed with subflavescent hairs, tibiae with a double 
series of spines, spurs fuscous. 
Length 7-8 mm. Hab. Cape Colony, Hex River (Peringuey). 
A close ally of M. thais Per.; the shape of the thorax and abdomen 
is nearly similar, but the former is much more broadly foveate, and 
the second segment of abdomen is not covered with closely set, round 
punctures as in the M. thais.‘“ 
Andre ist der Ansicht, daß die saga P£r., nach einem Exemplar, 
das ihm vorgelegen hat, der danae Per. sehr nahe stehe und eigentlich 
nur in der Färbungsverteilung auf dem Abdomen verschieden sei. Die 
Art kann auch noch insofern variieren, als auf dem fünften Segment 
- eine helle Binde auftreten kann, während Peringuey dies nur für 
das dritte und vierte Segment angibt. 
somalica Fox in Ac. P. Philadelph., 1896, p. 548, fig. 1. 
„Head?; thorax obseurely rufous; legs and abdomen black, the 
latter red beneath; the second segment in greater part with reddish 
orange pubescence forming a maculation (as shown in figure); a spot 
in the centre of dorsals 3—-5, a narrow transverse one on the apical 
margins of dorsals 2—5 at the sides, and apical margins of ventrals 
2—-5 with silvery pubescence; legs with pale pubescence, the rest 
of the body clothed with long, erect hairs, those above dark, those 
below pale; thorax robust, not twice as long as it is broad at base, 
coarsely eribrose above, the lateral margins irregular; scutellar scale 
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