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elytra not distinctly punctate, and without any traces of white 

 coating, the two costules are very distinct, and the two first dorsal 

 intervals have each two geminate striae ; the under side is very shiny, 

 the sides of the abdomen are either maculated or banded with an 

 ochraceous flavescent coating; the pectus and femora are clothed 

 with a light fulvous, dense pubescence ; the anterior tibiae are tri- 

 dentate in both sexes, the two apical teeth are set very close to each 

 other, and the third is remote ; in the female the spurs of the hind 

 tibiae are very little thicker than in the male, and the basal tarsal 

 joint not spinose or widely broadened outwardly. 



Length 10-14 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna, Uitenhage, Graham's Town, Port 

 Elizabeth, the whole Transkei) ; Natal (Durban, Frere, Karkloof, 

 Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Pretoria). 



Elaphinis nigropunctata, Pering., 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 163. 



This species is very closely allied to E. tigrina, and the facies is 

 very much like that of a Protatia. The upper side is light testaceous 

 yellow, but the frontal part of the head is black ; the prothorax has 

 in the centre two longitudinal rows of three macules each, two similar 

 ones on each side and one in the centre of the hase ; the elytra are 

 maculated with black in the manner of E. tigrina ; the pygidium is 

 of the same colour as the elytra and immaculate, the antennae are 

 fiavo-rufescent ; the anterior tibiae are bi-dentate with the teeth set 

 close to each other in the male, but tri-dentate in the female as in 

 A', tigrina, from which this species differs mostly in the larger size, 

 much lighter colour, the evenness of the black markings on the 

 thorax, although these may be found to be more variable than in the 

 examples which I have seen, and in the total absence of cretaceous 

 coating even on the under side. The shape of the genital armature 

 of the 3 is very similar in both species, but the lateral margin is 

 more carinate at apex in /•,'. nigropunctata. 



Length 15-17 mm. ; width 7£-9i mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Barberton). 



Elaphinis barbertonensis, n. sp. 

 iEneous black, upper side very light testaceous yellow ; head 

 black ; prothorax with four fuscous macules on the disk, and a 

 smaller one above the median part of the base, or with nearly the 

 whole surface of the disk suffused with aeneous black ; scutellum 

 totally or partly black ; elytra with two or three rows of black 



