340 Lieut. -Colonel 0. T. Biniiliam or? 



LVIIT, — On the ITymenoptera collected hi/ Mr. W. L. Dintant 

 in the Transvaal, South Africa, icith Descriptions of sup- 

 posed new Species. By Lieut. -Colonel C. T. BlNQHAM. 



Tribe FOSSORES. 



Family Miitillidae. 



Genus Apterogyna, Latr. 



Apterogyna glohularia, Fabr. 



Scolia glohularia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. (1793) p. 237. 



Apterocfi/na globularia^ Dalman, Anal. Ent. 18l*3, p. 101, pi. iv. fig3. 1- 



7; Smith, Cat. Hym. 13. M. iii. p. 63; Kadoszk. Hone Soc. Ent. 



Koss. xix. (18t>o) p. 43, pi. ix. fiir. 06. 

 Apterogyna Ehrenhergii, We.stw. Griff. An. Kingd. xv. (1832) p. 515, c^ , 



pi. Ixxvi. fig. 5. 



A solitary male, Pretoria [Zutrzenka). 



Genus Mutilla, Linn. 



Mutilla sycorax, Smith. 



Mutilla si/cora.v, Smith, Cat. Ilvm. B. M. iii. p. 19, $; Sich. & Kad. 

 Ilor. Soc. Ent. Ross. vi. (1869) p. 232, pi. viii. fig. 4. 



Three females, Barherton [Rendall] and Pienaars lliver 

 (IF. L. Distant), agreeing in all particulars ^vith Smith's 

 types in the British Museum. 



Mutilla comparata, Smith. 



Mutilla comparata, Smith, Desc. New Spec. Ilyni. B. M. 1879, p. 161, $ . 



^J\vo females, Pretoria {Distant), and two femah^s, Brak 

 Kloof, nearGrahamstown {Mrs. White); one female, Watcrval- 

 diider, one male, Durban {A. Iioss). 



Mutilla mephitis. Smith. 



Mutilla mejJtitis, Smith, Cat. Ilvm. B M. iii. (LS-';')) p. 21, $; Sich. 



& Badoszk. llor. Soc. Ent. Koss. vi. (1809) p. 2">t), ])!. i.\. fig. 3; 



Sauss. Mitth. schweiz. ent. Ges. viii. ])t. 7 (1891) p. 2o6 ; Grib. 



Mt-m. Accad. Sci. Bolog. (5) iv. (1894) p. .01. 

 Mutilla coryphasia, Bering. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. i. (1899) i)p. 367 k 



439, 6. 



]\Ir. Peringue says that he has received his Mutilla cory- 

 phasia in coitu with M. mephitis, Smith. \n Mr. Distant's 

 collection there is a male Mutilla from Pretoria (Distant) 

 agreeing exactly with tlie description of M. coryphasia ; also 



