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that on the vertex is black. Thorax : the mesothorax covered 

 with confluent punctures, having a central slightly raised carina, 

 on each side of which is a deep elongate groove, not quite ex- 

 tending to the anterior margin ; wings of a blackish-brown, and 

 having a bright violet iridescence. Abdomen subpetiolate, the 

 second segment ferruginous, shining, punctured at the base ; the 

 sides and the margins of the four apical segments ciliated with 

 glittering pale pubescence ; beneath, the second segment covered 

 with large distant punctures, the margins of the segments cili- 

 ated with pale glittering pubescence. 



Hab. West Africa (Whydah). 



112. MUTILLA CYPARISSA. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Head and thorax black, eyes notched, 

 abdomen ferruginous ; the head and thorax above densely 

 clothed with short bright orange pubescence ; the tegulse covered 

 with, and a line beneath the wings of similar pubescence ; wings 

 yellow-hyaline at the base, the apical half dark fuscous ; the 

 four apical segments of the abdomen black ; the apical margins 

 of all the segments ciliated with short pale glittering pubescence. 



Hab. West Africa (Whydah). 



113. MUTILLA CHARAXUS. B.M. 



Male. Length 8 lines. Black, the eyes emarginate ; head 

 and thorax rugose, thinly covered with a scattered black pubes- 

 cence; the mesothorax having a central longitudinal shining 

 carina and a deep elongate groove on each side not reaching the 

 anterior margin ; the scutellum elevated, its apex having a small 

 elevated shining tubercle ; the metathorax covered with large 

 shallow punctures, channeled in the middle, its lateral margins 

 having a raised shining carina ; the wings deep brown, with a 

 bright violet iridescence. Abdomen : the second segment ob- 

 scurely ferruginous, shining and finely punctured, the punctures 

 distant on the middle of the second segment, the third having a 

 yellowish-white fascia, more or less interrupted, on its apical 

 margin. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. (The Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 



114. MUTILLA ALECTO. B.M. 



Male. Length 7i lines. Black, the eyes emarginate, the 

 mandibles having a ferruginous spot near their tips. The pro- 

 thorax, metathorax and scutellum ferruginous ; the latter ele- 

 vated, and having a grooved carina above, not reaching the base ; 

 the mesothorax rugose, and having a central longitudinal carina 



