VII. — Description of Seven New Species of the Family MutillidcB 

 [Order Hyvienoptera) in the South African Museum. — By L. 

 Peeinguey, Assistant Director. 



Gen. METHOCA, Latr., 



Hist. Nat. d. Insect, 1805, xiii., p. 268. 



Methoca peocera, n. spec. 



? . Black with the legs piceous, and the apical abdominal segment 

 piceous red ; antennae briefly pubescent ; mandibles with a small 

 inner tooth near the apex, head covered with very closely set round 

 punctures, and clothed with a very short greyish pubescence ; the 

 antennal tubercles are very small and set under a rounded, longi- 

 tudinal median frontal elevation divided in two by a fine longitudinal 

 groove ; the eyes are large, set forward, and occupy about the 

 anterior median part of the sides, the posterior angles are much 

 rounded, but not attenuate, and the base is distinctly sinuate ; the 

 prothorax is a little dilated, but not rounded laterally, the meso- 

 thorax is bi-partite, and the metathorax is a little narrowed in front, 

 dilated laterally behind and strongly declivous but not vertical at 

 apex ; the whole upper part is deeply and irregularly punctured, but 

 not striolate except on the sides and on the posterior part of the 

 mesosternum ; abdomen pedunculate, first and second segments 

 smooth and very finely aciculate, third segment clothed with a very 

 short sericeous pubescence disposed transversely in the middle,, 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth entirely pubescent, the last segment is closely 

 aciculate on each side ; legs very long, slender, densely setulose, 

 spurs slightly brownish, but not dark. 



Larger and more robust than M. hoemorhoidalis, Westw. ; it differs 

 by the absence of striation on the upper side, except for a small 

 trace of it on the posterior part of the mesothorax ; the prothorax is 



