530 Col. C. T. Bingham on South African 
+ 
S. AFRica f (Coll. W. W. Saunders). RHODESIA: 
Mashonaland, Salisbury 5000 ft. ¢, Buluwayo f ? in cop. 
Dec. 1903 (G. Marshall). 
©. Head and abdomen black, thorax dark red. Head, thorax, 
and abdomen covered with erect black hairs. Head about as broad 
as the thorax anteriorly, covered with coarse, somewhat greyish pile, 
beneath which it is closely punctured ; mandibles acute at tip with 
a small preapical tooth on their inner margins ; antennae opaque, 
the scape covered with pile similar to that on the front and vertex, 
1st joint of the flagellum very short, 2nd twice as long as the 3rd ; 
eyes oval, rather small, equidistant from the occiput and the base 
of the mandibles. Thorax: strongly punctured above, the sides 
excavate and smooth. Seen from above, the thorax is narrow and 
rounded anteriorly, emarginate at the sides and distinctly broadened 
posteriorly ; the dorsal surface convex, passing evenly and roundly 
into the posterior vertical face, which is slightly concave in the 
centre ; legs black, covered with whitish hairs ; the calcaria and the 
single row of spines on the intermediate and posterior tibiae white ; 
claws simple, pale reddish-brown. Abdomen somewhat densely 
covered with short black pile, beneath which it is closely punctured; 
Ist segment immaculate beneath, longitudinally carinate, with a 
single somewhat deep emargination in the middle, 2nd segment with 
two rounded pubescent spots side by side placed closer to the base 
than to the apex of the segment, the lateral edges of the dorsal plate 
with a short longitudinal line of red ; 3rd segment with a transverse 
band of dense white pubescence broadly interrupted in the middle, 
apex of the dorsal and the apices of the 2nd to the 5th ventral 
segments conspicuously fringed with white hairs, pygidial area 
clearly defined, flat and finely punctured. 
Length 9 8mm. 
Described from the single taken in cop, at Buluwayo 
by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. 
From the 2 of MM. lewcopyga, it can be distinguished by 
the shape of the thorax, which in lewcopyga has the sides 
parallel, and by the proportion of the joints of the flagellum 
of the antennae. 
6. MUTILLA MEDON, Smith. 
Mutilla medon, Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M., ii, 1855, p. 20 g; 
Sich. and Radoszk., Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., vi, 1869, 
p. 239, pl. 21, fig: 12°35 
