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closely set alveolae, the walls of which hardly form a plication even 

 at about the median part ; thorax sub-parallel, but a little emarginate 

 laterally in the middle, not broader in the anterior part, which is 

 sloping on each side, than at the apex where it is almost vertically 

 ■declivous, and covered with deep, elongate foveas, with moderately 

 raised, sinuose walls ; the sides are serrulate, and in the median 

 posterior margin there is a sharp, longitudinal carina, ending in an 

 .acute, horizontal spine above the declivity, and having three a little 

 more slender ones on each side of it ; the outer angles are sharp, but 

 not spinose ; abdomen sessile, basal joint ampliateand fitting against 

 the second one, but not quite as broad, second ampliato-ovate ; all the 

 segments are closely punctate, the punctures in the central dorsal 

 part of the second are deeper and slightly elongate, but have no 

 raised walls, and the whole of the pygidium is striate longitudinally. 

 Length 10 mm. 



The shape of the mandibles and the spines on the declivous part 

 •of the prothorax will easily lead to the identification of this species. 



Hah. Natal (D'Urban). C. N. Barker, Esq. 



MUTILLA CAMILLA, n. SpeC. 



^ . Black, with the metathorax ferruginous red ; prothorax with 

 a clothing of dense, sub-flavescent hairs, apical part of the petiolate 

 basal abdominal segment and also of the second, narrowly fringed 

 with fulvescent hairs, third segment entirely covered by the same 

 pubescence ; head small, with the eyes large, prominent, non- 

 •emarginate occupying nearly half the sides, rugose, clothed with 

 l)lack and slightly fiavescent hairs, the flavescent hairs situated on 

 the vertex ; mandibles with a sharp tubercle underneath, arcuate, 

 sharp at tip, and with two inner small but distinct teeth between the 

 median part and the apex ; antennse somewhat massive, basal joint 

 deeply grooved longitudinally in front ; thorax sub-hexagonal, 

 truncate in front, deeply foveolate on the whole of the upper side, 

 but with the foveae on the metathorax broader ; the mesothorax is not 

 carinate or grooved, but the posterior angles are produced in a long, 

 slightly curved horizontal spinose tooth ; the metathorax is convex, 

 very much rounded laterally and very sloping ; the tegul^e are partly 

 ferruginous red, the wings smoky, the radial cell is truncate, the 

 stigma is indistinct, and there are three cubital cells ; the abdomen is 

 petiolate, the basal joint is strongly nodose, deeply foveate, and set 

 with long black hairs, the second is globose, densely hairy and 

 covered for two-thirds of the length with sub-foveolate round 



