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and very closely punctured, each puncture bearing a short, black 

 hair ; legs closely punctured and having a very short greyish 

 pubescence. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 5^ mm. 



Allied to M. hottcntotus, Paring., which it very closely resembles, 

 but it differs in the head and prothorax being much less 

 numerously punctured, the punctures being broadly scattered 

 instead of closely set, and also more shallow ; the wavy folds 

 of the elytra are more raised in M. liottentotus than in M. 

 rhodesianus. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong. 



GEN. MYLABEIS, Fabric. 

 MYLABRIS (CEROCTIS) MOSAMBICA, n. sp. 



Black, with the nine apical joints of the antennae red ; elytra with 

 two basal and one apical reddish-yellow patches, and two broad 

 transverse bands, the antemedian one of which is connected along 

 the suture with the basal patch ; head clothed with long black hairs, 

 slightly flavescent on the vertex, deeply punctate and having a very 

 plain longitudinal median smooth line in the centre ; prothorax of the 

 normal shape, clothed partly with flavescent and partly with black 

 hairs, carinulate longitudinally from the base to the median impression, 

 the basal impression is well defined, and the surface is deeply and 

 closely punctate ; scutellum finely punctate ; elytra sub-cylindrical and 

 with three fine, longitudinal costules on each side, covered with nearly 

 contiguous, somewhat deep, but not broad punctures, clothed on the 

 black background with appressed black hairs and on the reddish- 

 yellow with flavescent ones ; the first basal patch is arcuate and 

 extends for two-thirds of the width as far as the suture, which it 

 invades, and is there somewhat broadly connected with the wide 

 antemedian fascia, the second basal one extends under the shoulders 

 along the outer margin, but is not quite connected with the first 

 transverse band which is bi-sinuate, especially on the hind margin, 

 the latter reaching the median part of the disk, and extends from the 

 suture, which it invades completely, to the very edge of the outer 

 margin, the second transverse band is narrower than the first, bi- 

 sinuate, broader near the suture, which it does not invade quite 

 completely, the apical patch consists really of two amalgamated 

 ones, the upper part of the one being supra-apical, the lower part of 

 the other marginal ; abdomen clothed with flavescent hairs, the 

 hairs on the pectus and on the legs are partly black and partly 



