2 Cameron, Mutilla^from South Africa. 



and thickly covered with fulvous pubescence and less 

 thickly with long white hair. The apex of the median 

 segment smooth, impunctate. Above, the thorax is 

 covered with long black hairs ; the lower part of the 

 metapleurse thickly covered with pale hairs. Legs thickly 

 covered with long pale hairs ; the fore calcaria pale. 

 Abdomen black, thickly covered with long black hairs ; 

 before the middle of the second segment are two roundish 

 marks of silvery pubescence; the third segment is covered, 

 except in the middle, with silvery pubescence ; the fourth 

 and fifth with long black hairs ; the apical with long pale 

 hairs ; the basal half of the second ventral segment is 

 stoutly keeled in the middle, the keel ending in a stout, 

 curved, projecting point. 



MUTILLA yEGROTA, Sp. nov. 



Long. 24-25 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal. 



Agrees in coloration with M. carsoni ; but the white 

 marks on the second abdominal segment are smaller and 

 situated on the extreme base ; otherwise differing in the 

 much shorter and broader thorax which is not one-half 

 the length of the abdomen. 



Head strongly rugosely punctured, above sparsely 

 covered with stout black hairs ; the oral region, at the sides 

 and behind, with the hairs longer, paler and much more 

 numerous ; behind the eyes it is not much longer than 

 them, and straight, not narrowed ; the space above the 

 antennae hollowed, rounded at the top ; its sides near the 

 antennae with a straight stout keel ; the clypeus covered 

 with longish, thick, golden hair ; the mandibles with 

 longish blackish hair. Antennae short, thick, not much 

 longer than the width of the head ; the scape curved, 

 shining, above sparsely covered with short black hair ; the 

 flagellum thick distinctly and gradually narrowed towards 



