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the vertex and in the frontal part ; it is very deeply punctate ; the 

 eyes are large, vertical, emarginate, and the posterior angles are not 

 much rounded ; mandibles arcuate, sharp at tip and with a small 

 inner tooth near the apex, no median tubercle or vertical projection 

 beneath ; antennae moderately robust, scape strongly punctate but 

 not grooved, first joint of flagellum very short, second and third of 

 nearly equal length ; mesothorax much rounded laterally, meso- 

 sternum convex, and with three smooth longitudinal carinas, meta- 

 sternum a little sinuate laterally, but sub-parallel, and with the outer 

 angles moderately rounded ; the surface is deeply punctured and 

 that of the metasternum is alveolate and clothed with black hairs 

 intermixed wdth white ; these white hairs are denser on the prono- 

 tum, and especially on the scutellum which is convex and simple ; 

 abdomen sub-sessile ; the first joint is not quite as broad at apex as 

 the second, all are covered with closely set punctures which are 

 larger on the first and second segments, and all of them have a fringe 

 of not quite decumbent not very thick hairs and indistinctly inter- 

 rupted at middle, except on the first and second segments where 

 they are a little denser and shorter ; the under side and legs are 

 clothed with similar whitish hairs, and the tibiae are non-spinose 

 outwardly and have white spurs ; the ventral carina of the first 

 segment is bi-dentate, and the second segment has a median, smooth^ 

 raised line, culminating at apex in a triangular smooth space ; 

 tegulae piceous red, wings smoky except near the base, and having a 

 small hyaline dot in the radial cell, a hyaline transverse line in the 

 second and third cubital, and a dot at the apex of the second 

 discoidal, stigma cellular, radial cell not truncate. Length 11 mm. 



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



This species is allied to M. speculatrix, Sm., but is different. 



NOTE. 



Mutilla autonoe, Per., is pronounced by Dr. H. Brauns, who has caught it in 

 copula, to be the male of M. merope, Sm. 



Mutilla artemisia. Per., c? , is identical witli M. atropos, Sm., witli which 

 M. albistyla, Saus., is probably synonymous. 



The name of Mutilla clclia, Per. (Ann. S. A. Mus., vol. i., p. 443), should read 

 M. Cecilia, Per. 



The name of Mutilla cyllene, used by me for an African species (Ann. S. A. 

 Mus., i., p. 444) having been already used for an American species, must be 

 changed into M. saga. 



