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punctures with the intervals very httle raised, the other segments 

 are very closely and distinctly punctured, and the ventral carina of 

 the first joint is short and almost triangular ; spurs of tarsi black. 

 Length 11-11|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). Eev. J. A. O'Neil. 



MUTILLA (DaSYLABEIS) MASHUNA. 



g- . Black, covered with dense black hairs, dorsal part of the pro- 

 ■and meso-thorax clothed with an orange-red pubescence, basal part 

 of the first and second abdominal segments having a dense fringe 

 of silvery white hairs, third one entirely clothed with the white hairs; 

 head moderately small, clothed wdth a black pubescence, deeply and 

 closely punctured, eyes moderately large, not emarginate, jaws 

 simple, joints of antennae moderately thick, basal joint deeply 

 grooved in the internal face, and with the walls of the groove 

 marinate ; pro- and meso-thorax deeply punctured, not very densely 

 pubescent laterally, scutellum simple, not raised, metasternum 

 parallel laterally and with the outer angles moderately rounded, 

 strongly declivous, and deeply foveate ; tegulse black, wings smoky, 

 but with a chalybeate tinge from the median to the apical part, radial 

 cell a little obliquely truncate at tip, stigma small, opaque, three 

 ■cubital cells ; abdomen sub-petiolate, basal segment and the greatest 

 part of the second, deeply and closely foveolate, the other segments 

 and also the apical part of the second closely and deeply punctured ; 

 the black pubescence is very thick, the ventral carina of the first 

 segment is very sharp and truncate, the edges of the second and 

 third segments are edged beneath with white hairs, some of which 

 a,re also scattered on the pectus, the femora have a fringe of these 

 white hairs, and the spurs of the tibiae are black. Length 13 mm. 



This species resembles a little the <y of M. meplutis, Sm. (ilf. 

 coryphasia <? , Per.), but the mandibles are not so strongly dentate 

 inwardly before the tip, nor is the sub- vertical tooth beneath as 

 greatly developed, and the basal joint of the antennae is strongly 

 grooved, which is not the case in M. mephitis — the prothorax and 

 mesothorax of which are clothed with black hairs only. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). Eev. J. A. O'Neil. 



MuTiLLA zoE, n. spec. 

 S^ . Black, with the first and second abdominal segments red ; head 

 short, very transverse, densely clothed with greyish white hairs on 



