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feeble longitudinal raised line in a shallow ill defined furrow, surface 

 coarsely tessellate, with feeble radiating striolae basally and transverse 

 ones apically. sides of propodeum obliquely striolate, posterior face nar- 

 row, with a shallow furrow and impressed line above, transversely 

 strongly striolate throughout ; middle and hind tibiae with stout white 

 spines on the outer face as long as the width of the tibiae ; front tarsi 

 grooved beneath, the comb strongly developed ; hind and middle tarsi 

 strongly spinose. 



Abdomen with the tergites not contracted at the sutures, very finely 

 strongly punctate, the punctures separated by about two or three times 

 their diameter. 



Described from two females collected at the Mowbray 

 Golf Links, Kappenberg, near Capetown, Feb., 1915 (Brid- 

 vvell). Type in the South African Mnsenm, paratype in the 

 nnthor's collection. 



Mutillonitela lounsburyi n. sp. 



Female : Similar to mimica. Length 5 mm.. ; win.5 3 mm. 



Clypeus pale, ferruginous, legs brownish piceous ; scutellum and 

 metanotum black; tergites 1-3 rufescent ; apical two-thirds of tergite 6 

 whitish yellow ; sternites 2-6 dark ; pubescence of head much feebler and 

 sparser ; the setae reduced to pointed hairs. 



Pronotum longer, punctate, the surface between more transversely 

 rugulose; mesonotum similar; scutellum with the punctures very dis- 

 tinct, well separated ; mesopleura shining, the punctures irregularly 

 disposed; propodeum similar to that of mimica but tlie surface more 

 rugose ; sides of propodeum shining with strong, well separated punc- 

 tures, the posterior face like that of mimica. 



Abdomen shorter, more compact, first tergite broader, the punctures 

 larger, stronger^ and more separated. 



Described from one female collected in the same locality 

 as mimica Feb. -April, 1915 (Bridwell). 



Type in the author's collection. 



Both species were taken runnins; along the bare sand and 

 resemble closely the small MufiUidae which are found there, 

 until disturbed when they escape by flying. I am disposed to 

 consider this a real case of mimicry. A ISTyssonid not yet 

 studied was found under the same circumstances and even 

 more closely resembling the MufiUidae. 



Xamed in compliment to C. P. Lounsbury, the head of 



