Rev. Zool. Afc, XL 3.) (A paru le 30-X-1923.) 



STUDIES IN ÀFRICÀN MUTILLIML 



by 

 J. CHESTER BRADLEY and J. BEQUAERT. 



The following records, notes, and descriptions were drawn up 

 during the préparation of a Synopsis of the Mutillida; of the Belgian 

 Congo which will be published in New York as part of the Report of 

 the collections of the American Muséum Congo Expédition. In the 

 course of that work a number of species from other parts of Africa 

 were studied for comparison and they suggested to us various remarks 

 which may be of use to future students of this group. 



We wish to express our gratitude to Dr. H. Schouteden, Curator 

 of the Zoological Section of the Congo Muséum, at Tervueren, for 

 the privilège of examining thi very rich collection of Mutillidaeinhis 

 care and especially many valuable type spécimens. We are also under 

 obligations to Mr. Hugo Kahl for submitting to us a small number 

 of Mutillidze from the Cameroon, contained in the collections of the 

 Carnegie Muséum, at Pittsburgh, and to Dr. H. Skinner for per- 

 mission to study the spécimens of this family collected by A. Donald- 

 son Smith in Somaliland, and preserved at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Unless otherwise stated, ail spécimens hère recorded belong to 

 the Congo Muséum, at Tervueren. For the location of the localities 



