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lum produced, and having in the middle a smooth shining tu- 
berele; the metathorax rounded at the sides, covered with large 
shallow punctures ; wings brown-black with a violet iridescence ; 
legs thinly clothed with cinereous pubescence, the scutellum has 
a fringe of the same colour. Abdomen smooth and shining, 
punctured at the sides, nearly impunctate down the middle ; the 
second segment has on each side at its base a large ovate spot, 
and all the segments have an interrupted broad fascia of silvery- 
white pubescence. 
Hab. Congo. 
128. Murityua Merore. B.M. 
Female. Length 7 lines.—Black, head very small, much 
narrower than the thorax, the face and vertex thinly sprinkled 
with short silvery pubescence. Thorax oblong, slightly nar- 
rowed behind, very coarsely rugose, of a deep obscure red; the 
anterior tarsi furnished externally with long black spines, the in- 
termediate and posterior tibize very spimose externally, and the 
apex of the joints of the tarsi furnished with long, black spines ; 
the calearia dark rufo-piceous. Abdomen clothed with short 
black pubescence, the second segment having at the base a cen- 
tral large hexagonal spot, and two larger spots at its apex, rounded 
within, and nearly meeting in the centre, of dark orange-coloured 
pubescence ; the fourth and fifth segments are covered with pu- 
bescence of the same colour; beneath, the second segment is 
coarsely rugose and has a central short longitudinal carina at the 
base ; the margins of the segment ciliated with glittering golden 
hairs; the entire insect sprinkled with long black hairs. 
Hab. South Africa. 
129. Muritua Mepuitis. B.M. 
Female. Length 53-6} lines—Head and abdomen black, 
thorax ferruginous; head coarsely rugose and having a thinly 
scattered glittering pale pubescence. Thorax rugose, the sides 
and also beneath sometimes dusky; the form is oblong, having 
on each side, before the middle, an obtuse tubercle, in some ex- 
amples nearly obsolete; the legs covered with a long loose sil- 
very-white pubescence; the intermediate and posterior tibie 
have externally a double row of long black spines, the spines 
which arm the apex of the joints of the tarsi are also black ; the 
calearia and claws ferruginous. Abdomen coarsely rugose and 
clothed with short black pubescence; the basal segment above, 
an ovate spot at the base of the second, and four spots placed 
