7108 Dr. H. Bischoff: 
spinose outwardly; wings hyaline at base, infuscate in the median 
part, and fuscous at tip. Length 9—10 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Port Elizabeth).‘ 
Vgl. das bei der diacantha Gesagte. 
calais Peringuey in Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 1899, p. 499; Zavattari in 
Ann. Mus. Napoli, 1910, Nr. 9, Vol. 3, p. 14. 
Da es mir nicht möglich ist, die Beschreibung der calais auf eine 
der vorliegenden Formen zu beziehen, dieselbe vielmehr auf eine 
ganze Reihe von Arten paßt, sehe ich mich genötigt, die Original- 
beschreibung wiederzugeben. 
„Male. — Black, shining; prothorax, mesothorax and scutellum 
red, apical margin of the first and second segments, and the whole 
of the third one with a transverse silvery white band; head transverse 
with the posterior angles slıghtly rounded, the eyes are not emargi- 
nate; it is covered with deep, round foveolate punctures, and clothed- 
with dense black hairs; the mandibles are somewhat short, not enlarged 
at tip, quadri-dentate inwardly, and not toothed beneath; antennae 
thick, second joint of the flagellum one-third shorter than the third, 
but of equal width, scape very roughly punctured; thorax truncate 
in front, not long; deeply foveolate, mesothorax without raised longi- 
tudinal groove or line, scutellum on a plane with the mesothorax, 
transverse with the posterior angles rounded, a little emarginate and 
slightly declivous at apex; tegulae red, deeply punctured; wings 
fuscous, anterior ones slightly bluish at tip and a little less deeply 
infuscate at base, stigma opaque, very small, radıal not truncate 
nor very elongate; three cubital cells and two recurrent nervures; 
abdomen petiolate, first and second segments covered with deep, 
elongate, foveolate punctures, the others closely aciculate; the first 
segment is long, very slender at base, and gradually swollen, the 
remainder of the abdomen is quite ovate, the margins of the first and 
second segment have a silvery white pubescent band, and the third is 
covered with a similar band which is not, however, broader than the 
marginal one on the second; ventral carina of the first segment nearly 
as long as the segment itself, little raised and not truncate at apex; 
legs black; tibiae not spinose, spurs black. Length 12 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Baker. 
Its nearest ally among South African Mutilla with the basal 
segment long and nodose at apex, is M. capicola, but it differs from 
it by the less deep and narrower foveolate punctures on the two basal‘ 
segments of the abdomen, the first of which is also a little more slender, 
and there is a transverse band on the third segment which is absent 
in M. capicola.“ 
galanthis Peringuey in Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 1899, p. 49. 
„Male. — Similar in shape and sculpture to the female; the colour 
of the thorax is brighter red, and the base of the first abdominal seg- 
ment is also red; but the metathorax is not tuberculate even laterally; 
the mesothorax has apparently no longitudinal groove; wings sub- 
