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there are, collected by Mr. Reiidall, six females of undoubted 

 M. mepJiifisj Smith, from Fort Joiinstou, Nyasaland, with 

 two males from the same locality which I shoukl have 

 unhesitatingly ascribed to M. mephitis. These two males 

 closely resemble ^1/. cort/phasia, but have, in addition to the 

 bands of white pubescence on the second and third abdominal 

 segments, a narrow band of like pubescence on the apex of 

 the first segment, lateral white spots midway on the middle 

 of the second, and a medial round wiiite spot on the apices of 

 the fifth and sixth segments. These latter markings approxi- 

 mate so closely to tiie disposition of tiie markings in the 

 female that provisionally 1 consider these to be the true males 

 of M. mephitis, but follow Mr. Peringue in joining J/, cori/- 

 j)hasia to M. mephitis. 



Mutilla leucopyga, Klug. 



Mutilhi leiicopyga, Klug, Svrub. Physic, Ins. (1829) n. 10, $ , pi. iv. 

 tig. 10 ; Sich. & KadoszL Ilor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. vi. (18G9) p. 231, $ . 



One female, Fort Johnston, Nyasaland {Kendall) ; one 

 femyle, Durban (^1. Boss). 



Mutilla tettensis, Gerst. 



Mutilla tettensis, Gerst. Monatsber. Akad, Wiss. Berl. 1857, p. 511, 2 ; 

 id. Peters, Reise u. Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 488, pi. xx.xi. fig. 7, $ . 



One female. Fort Johnston, Nyasaland {Rendall). 



Mutilla guiiieensis, Fabr. 



Mutilla f/tiineensi$, Fabr. Ent. Sjst. ii. 1793, p. 367, $ ; Gerst. 

 Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1857, p. 511, S I id. Peters, Ileise 

 n. Mossamb., Zool, v, 18G2, p. 486, pi. xxxi. tigs. 4 & 5 ; Sich. & 

 Eaduszk. Hor. Soc. Ent. Koss. vi. (laOU) p. 225 ; Magr. Ann. Mus 

 Civ. Gen. xxxv. (1895) p. 164. 



One female. Fort Johnston, Nyasaland (Rendall). 



Mutilla cloantha, Peringue. 



Mutilla chantha, Perbg. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. i. (1899) p. 353, §, & 

 p. 355, 6 ' 



One male, Pretoria {Distant). 



Mutilla excavata, sp. n. 



(J . Black, with the apical margin of the fiirst narrowly 

 and the whole of the second abdominal segment bright 

 red ; pubescence fuscous brown, mixed with white, fairly 

 dense on the head, sparse on the thorax and abdomen ; the 



