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the basal one which is densely fringed at base with flavescent hairs, 

 black, and with the basal lateral part of the second and third, and 

 the whole of the fourth clothed with flavescent hairs ; mandibles 

 sharp at tip, scape and basal joints of the flagellum densely hairy, the 

 hairs silky white, first joint short, conical, second twice as long as 

 the first, and of the same length as the third ; head small, densely 

 clothed with silky white pubescence, eyes occupying nearly one-half 

 of the sides, posterior angles very much rounded ; it is about as- 

 broad as the anterior part of the prothorax, and is roughly and 

 deeply foveolate ; thorax truncate at tip and nearly straight, ampliate 

 obliquely laterally from the anterior angle to near the median part, 

 and more obliquely attenuate from there to the vertical declivity 

 where it is about one-third narrower than at the base ; it is some- 

 what convex, deeply foveate, the declivity is gradually sloping, the 

 sides are not much serrulate, and towards the apical slope there is a 

 moderately distinct tubercle ; abdomen petiolate, first segment not 

 very long, strongly nodose, punctate, setose, second segment ovate, 

 covered from the base to two-thirds of the length with conspicuously 

 elongate fovese having raised walls, but with the fovese smaller and 

 the intervals sub-striate in the apical part ; median part of pygidium 

 strongly striate longitudinally from the base to half the length,, 

 ventral carina of first segment somewhab bluntly tri-dentate. 

 Length 8 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). Eev. J. A, O'NeiL 



MuTiLLA NAi's, n. spec. 



? . Black, with the prothorax ferruginous red, somewhat dark ;. 

 abdomen sessile, and having a white pubescent patch in the centre 

 of the basal margin of the first segment, a supra-lateral round patch 

 on each side of the median part of the second ; the whole of the third 

 segment is covered by a white band, and so is the apical segment ; 

 spurs of tarsi white ; mandibles rufescent, compressed, the left one 

 truncate and distinctly trifid, the right one strongly dentate on the 

 upper side, at about the middle of the upper part, obliquely attenuate 

 from there, and with another small tooth between the median and 

 the slightly bifid apical point ; antennal tubercles sub-rufescent, 

 scape slightly piceous red, not densely hairy, basal joint of flagellum 

 very short, conical ; head very briefly and somewhat sparsely 

 pubescent, broader than the prothorax, a little attenuate laterally 

 behind the eyes which are large and set forward, and wdth the 

 posterior angles well rounded ; it is covered with elongate, irregular,. 



