1908.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 603 



Subgenus ACTENODIA Cast. 



1. Mylabris (A.) chrysomelina Erichs. Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., 1843, p. 258. 



Angola (IiIrichson), Loanda, Bengo (Welwitsch), Mossamedes 

 (Anchieta), Gamba, March, 1908, 341 specimens (Wellman). All the 

 specimens were taken on the flowers of Tribulus zegheri. Type in 

 Berlin Konigliches IMuseum, marked on locality label "Angola, Schonh." 



2. Mylabris (A.) deserticola Wellm. spec. nov. 



Nigra, elongata, pallido-pubescens; elijtris nigris, pundulatis, pone 

 basin et humerale flavo-maculatis undulatimque bifasciatis, fascia anteri- 

 ore flava, posteriore fulva; prothorace et capite fortiter pundatis, illo 

 medio breviter foveolato; antennarum ariiculis 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 nigris, 3, 4, 5 

 testaceis; pedes testacei, geniculis tarisque nigris. 



Long. Corp. 8 mm. 



Lat. elytr. Z\ mm. 



Hob. Benguella (Africa) ah auctore coUecta. 



Typ. in coll. mea. 



Small, graceful species; head black, rather strongl}^ puncturetl and 

 with a few scattered minute pale hairs ; labrum emarginate, rather hairy ; 

 mandibles fuscous, maxillary palpi with apical joint obliquely truncate 

 and nearly twice as long as penultimate, labial palpi short, eyes large, 

 antenme with first two joints black, 2d to 5th testaceous, 6th to 8tli 

 black, rather sparsely covered with short fine white hairs and a few larger 

 black ones, the last joint more closely covered with short fine white hairs ; 

 thorax black rather sparsely and strongly punctured, clothed with pallid 

 hairs, in the center at the basal third is an elongate fovea about ^ 

 the length of the thorax; scutellum small, with a few short pallid hairs; 

 elytra black irregularly punctulate, pallidly villose, with a large yellow or 

 pale orange spot at the base of each elytron, and two transverse irregular 

 bands, one of a yellow color a little in front of the middle and the other 

 of an orange red color about half way between the middle band and the 

 apex of the elytron; at the humeral margin of the elytron is a spot 

 smaller and narrower than the basal spot, this is connected by a 

 narrow marginal band to the middle transverse fascia; legs testaceous 

 with a rather broad apical black band to the femora, a much narrower, 

 occasionally nearly obsolete black apical band on the tibiae and tarsi, 

 the last tarsus being sometimes almost entirely black ; the under side 

 of the body is black. 



Type in my collection; cotype (paratype) Cat. No. 12119, U. S. N. M. 



Five specimens of this pretty little species were taken in the desert 

 just outside of the city of Benguella in March, 1908. The}'- were all 

 on a leafless shrub and their food plant is unknown. It seemed pro- 



