1908.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 613 



punctatis, maculis 2 (juxta-scuteUare et humerali) obscure aurantiacis^ 

 fascisque 2 (prima anteriore ad medium Integra, secunda inter medium 

 et apicem interrupta) obscure rufo-aurantiacis ornatis. Corpus infra 

 et pedes nigra, nigro-pubescentia. 



Long. Corp. 24 mm. 



Lot. elytr. 13 mm. 



Hah. Gamba, Angola (Africa); ah auctore coUecta. 



Typ. in coll. mea. 



Large black species, rather robust, clothed with very short black 

 pubescence, which is longer on the head, thorax and abdomen. The 

 head and thorax are feebly punctulate, the latter doubly though feebly 

 impressed. Eyes large, not very convex. Antennce with the first two 

 joints black, the second and third fulvous and the remainder light 

 orange-yellow. The palpi are brownish. Scutellum very small, 

 triangular. Elytra closely and finely punctate, each elytron with two 

 spots, juxta-scutellar and humeral, and two fasciae, the first in front of 

 the middle, the second about midway betweexi the median band and 

 the apex of the elytron. The two spots and the median band are dark 

 orange, the posterior band (which is sometimes interrupted) dark 

 orange-red. Legs and body black, clothed with black hairs, the inter- 

 nal surface of the front legs covered with short pale silky hairs. 



Type in my collection; cotype Cat. No. 12124, U. S. N. M. 



Twenty-four specimens taken in March, 1908, on the flowers of 

 Trihulus zegheri. 



49. Mylabris (M.) tincta Erichs., Wiegm. Arch. Naturg., 1843, I, p. 256. 



Angola (Erichson), Angola (Marseul), Angola (Welwitsch). 

 Type in Berlin, Konigliches Museum. 



50. Mylabris (M.) tindila Wellm. spec. nov. 



Nigra, parva, nigro-puhescens; caput dense puntulatum, nigro-viUo- 

 sum, antennis flavis, articulis duohus primis nigris; thorax parvus^ 

 dense punctidatus, nigro-villosus, latitudine longior, postice longitudi- 

 naliter foveolatus; elytra dense suhtiliter punctata, liniis dorsalihus 3 

 distinctis, nigro-pubescentia; fasciis tribus uiululatis -flavis suturam 

 attingentibus; corpus infra et pedes nigra. 



Long. Corp. 12 mm. 



Lat. elytr. 5 mm. 



Hah. Gamba, Angola (Africa) ; ah auctore collecta. 



Typ. in- coll. mea. 



A rather small species; head densely punctulate, blacklj^ pubescent 

 with a longish vertical smooth boss between the eyes. Eyes promi- 



