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the base, this basal band reaches the suture in the anterior part 

 only, and the result of the amalgamation of this basal patch and 

 band gives to the elytra the appearance of being yellowish-red from 

 the base to the median part, except for a narrow strip along part of 

 the suture, and enclosing a humeral, narrow black band, the second 

 band is equi-distant from the first and from the apex, strongly 

 sinuate, is narrowly disconnected from the suture but not from the 

 outer margin ; the antennae are unmistakably 7-jointed, the last 

 joint, which is nearly equal in length to the four preceding ones 

 taken together, is very thick, but arcuate as in Conjna. 



Length 4J 5 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



GEN. LYTTA, Fabric. 

 LYTTA DAM AKIN A. 



Head covered with nearly contiguous foveolate briefly setigerous 

 punctures, black with a red spot above the emargination of the eye, 

 a frontal one, and a broad basal transverse band of the same colour ; 

 the labrum has an arcuate median emargination ; antennae black 

 with the exception of the three basal joints, of which the first two 

 and the basal part of the third are rufescent ; prothorax strongly 

 attenuate laterally in the anterior part, straight thence to the base 

 which is marginate, having a median impression in the anterior part 

 and a broader, deeper triangular one near the base, the whole surface 

 is covered with contiguous, deep, slightly scrobiculate punctures, is 

 very briefly pubescent, and has the two impressions filled w r ith dense 

 greyish-white hairs ; scutellum clothed with similar hairs ; elytra 

 elongate, one-fourth broader than the prothorax at the base, parallel, 

 singly rounded at apex, moderately convex, very closely and finely 

 shagreened, clothed with a very brief, decumbent pubescence, and 

 having a narrow margin of greyish-white hairs edging the suture and 

 the outer margin, as well as a discoidal one which is very widely 

 disconnected from base or apex ; under side clothed with dense 

 greyish-white hairs ; legs shagreened, pubescent ; apical spurs, 

 claws, and basal part of first joint of posterior tarsi rufescent. 



Length 14-15 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Northern Damaraland. A. \Y. Eriksson. 



LYTTA SPILOTELLA, n. sp. 



Fuscous black, with the frontal part of the head, a broad discoidal 

 patch on the elytra, a large patch on the metasternum and the femora 



