Aculeate Hymenoftera in Oxford Museum. 545 



88. Stenomutilla. clelia, Peringuey. 



Mutilla cldia, Per., Ann. S.A. Mas., i, 1899, p. 366 $. 

 Mutilla {titenomutilla) clelia, Andre, Zeits. Hym. Dipt., i, 

 1901, p. 322 $. 



N.E. Rhodesia : East Loangwa District, Petauke 2400 

 ft. : ^ Feb. 21, 1905 ; $ Jan. 27, 1905 (S. A. Neave). 



The $ specimen has the wings torn otf. The $, so far 

 as I know, has nut been previously described. 



§, Black, the mesonotuin of the thorax very obscurely dark red. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen coarsely densely cribrately punctured and 

 covered sparsely with stiff, erect, black hairs, the punctures on the 

 2ad abdt)minal segment are elongate and run into heavy, coarse, 

 longitudinal striations, the clypeus, lower part of the face, the scape of 

 the antennae and the legs have a more or less dense clothing of silvery 

 white hairs mixed with the black ; transverse bands at the apices of 

 the 1st and 2nd abdominal segments of pale yellowish white pubes- 

 cence. Head transverse, broader than long, and not so broad as the 

 tliorax in front ; mandibles acute at apex, clypeus highly polished 

 and shining; antennae stout, 2nd joint of the flagellum somewhat 

 longer than the 3rd ; eyes : convex, prominent, placed in the middle of 

 the sides of the head equally distant from the base of the mandibles 

 and from the posterior lateral angle of the head. Thorax short, of 

 the same shape as in the ^ , transverse anteriorly, the sides parallel 

 for a short distance then obliquely inclined towards each other, the 

 apex truncate, the pleurae excavate, coarsely cribrate not smooth. 

 Abdomen : basal segment petiolate, nodose at apex, the ventral carina 

 not prominent, 2nd segment very long and massive, apical segment 

 convex above, without a pygidial area. 



Length $ 10 mm. 



39. Stenomutilla beroe, Peringuey. 



Mutilla heroe, Per., Ann. S.A. Mus., i, 1898, p. 48 $. 

 Stenomutilla heroe, Andre, Wytsman's Gen. Ins. Hym., 

 Fasc. 11, 1903, p. 68 ?. 

 Natal: Lake Umkomaas ^ {G. Leigh); Rhodesia: 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury 5000 ft. $ ? {G-. Marshall)', 

 East Loangwa, Petauke 2400 ft. {S. A. Neave). 



(J . Black, the thorax red. Head, thorax and abdomen covered with 

 erect black hairs, the base of the mandibles, the front of the scape of 

 the antennae, the occiput, the median segment posteriorly, the legs 

 and transverse bands on the apices of the basal three abdominal 



