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MTJTILLIDJS. 



spot, two on the second, and the third covered with white ; the 

 erect pubescence on the insect beneath is white. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



2. Mutilla angulata. 



Male. Length 7 lines. — Black ; the mesothorax and scutellum fer- 

 ruginous. The head very closely punctured, the eyes emarginate, 

 wings with two submarginal cells. The thorax rugose-punctate, 

 the mesothorax most coarsely so and widest posteriorly; wings 

 brown, palest towards their base, the tegulae ferruginous. The 

 first and second segments of the abdomen strongly punctured, the 

 first with a patch of white pubescence on its apical margin laterally, 

 the third segment with a broad slightly interrupted white fascia ; 

 the entire insect thinly sprinkled with erect white pubescence, ex- 

 cept that on the second and apical segments of the abdomen, which 

 is fuscous. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope ? 



This species resembles Mutilla miranda in having the posterior 

 lateral angles of the metathorax produced ; but that insect has the 

 head ferruginous, and is from India ; the present species is believed 

 to be from the Cape. It is from the Shuckardian collection. 



3. Mutilla purpurata. 



Male. Length 5| lines. — Head, antennae, the thorax at the sides, 

 beneath, the metathorax, and legs black ; the abdomen dark 

 purple ; the thorax ferruginous above. The head very closely and 

 strongly punctured. The thorax rugose, the metathorax coarsely 

 so; wings dark fuscous, subhyaline at their extreme base; the 

 legs with thin white pubescence. The apical margins of the first 

 and second segments of the abdomen with a white pubescent fascia, 

 the third segment covered with the same, the second segment finely 

 punctured. 



Hab. Natal. 



4. Mutilla dolosa. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head and abdomen black, the thorax 

 ferruginous, the legs obscurely so ; two small ovate spots on the 

 second segment, and the third with a fascia of bright white pubes- 

 cence. Head large, much wider than the thorax, and strongly and 

 closely punctured; the tubercles at the base of the antennas 

 bright ferruginous, and each having a short black tooth above ; the 

 scape of the antennae obscurely ferruginous ; the mandibles ferru- 

 ginous in the middle. Thorax oblong-quadrate, slightly narrowed 

 in the middle, very coarsely rugose, irregularly sculptured longi- 



