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black ; the thorax obscure pink-red. The head narrower than 

 the thorax, which is a little longer than broad, subquadrate, and 

 widest in the middle, having a thinly-scattered short black pubes- 

 cence above, on the sides and beneath it is cinereous ; the legs have 

 also a few scattered pale hairs. Abdomen with the second seg- 

 ment coarsely rugose, but less so at its apical margin ; two pale 

 gold-coloured ovate pubescent spots on the basal segment ; the third 

 segment covered with similar pubescence, but interrupted in the 

 middle ; beneath, the segments fringed with pale pubescence. 



Hah. Zambesi, Lake ISTyassa. 



11. Mutilla guttata. 



Female. Length 4J lines. — Black, with the thorax ferruginous 

 above. The head with pale golden- coloured pubescence ; the 

 antennae and the base of the mandibles obscurely ferruginous. 

 The thorax oblong, rounded in front, and narrowed to the meta- 

 thorax, coarsely rugose, and sprinkled with pale glittering golden- 

 coloured pubescence ; the legs have a similar pubescence. The 

 basal segment of the abdomen subglobose and covered with silvery 

 pubescence; the second segment with three large ovate, bright 

 gold-coloured pubescent maculae, a similar macula at the apex of 

 the abdomen ; beneath, the second, third, and fourth segments are 

 fringed with white pubescence. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



12. Mutilla penetrata. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head a little wider than the thorax, 

 black, with the vertex obscurely ferruginous, and covered with large 

 deep oblong punctures that are more or less confluent. Thorax 

 ferruginous, quadrangular, truncate anteriorly and posteriorly, 

 coarsely rugose, .the punctures large, oblong, and running into 

 irregular striae ; the legs with glittering white pubescence. The 

 abdomen with an ovate pubescent macula at the apical margin of 

 the first segment, two placed laterally towards the apical margin of 

 the second segment, one in the middle of its apical margin, and a 

 similar spot on the margins of the three following ; these unite, 

 forming a central line ; beneath, the second and following segments 

 are fringed with white pubescence. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



Div. II. Head and thorax ferruginous. (Sp. 13-17.) 



13. Mutilla decipiens. 



Female. Length 2|-3^ lines. — Head, scape, two or three of the 

 basal joints of the antenna?, the mandibles, palpi, thorax, and legs 



