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the sliouklcr to a very sliort distanee below it ; the posterior 

 eml of siibmcdiau patch squarely truncate. 



Head deeply, sub-coiitiuciitly punctate ; epistome and 

 labruiu sniootli, shiny. Anteiime slender, elongate, filiform. 



Prothorax transverse, apical angles broadly rounded, 

 lateral margins widely grooved and reHexed, straight but a 

 little inclinmg inwards to posterior angles which are right 

 and moderately sharp, apex emarginale, base produced, 

 disc rugosely punctate, convex, median line broadly and 

 deeply grooved, reaching from near apex to the transverse 

 basal depression. 



Klijtra elongate-ovate, shoulders rounded, gently ampliate 

 to below middle, slightly contracted to outer angle, and then 

 sinuately truncate to apex, narrowly and shallowly striate, 

 hardly perceptibly or not punctate, intervals plane, smooth, 

 and shiny. 



Jk'/ieath shiny and aciculate. 



Hub. Coast bush about Durban. Common. 



Lebia durbanensis, race malvernensis, mihi. 



A local variety of above which shows some consistently 

 divergent characteristics, which, I think, justify its bearing a 

 distinctive name. 



Shape and size as in durbanensis, but differentiated from 

 it as follows : — Puueturatiou of head and transverse plication 

 of prothorax coarser and deeper, the coloration of the 

 latter rufescent, more or less darkened centrally ; striae 

 of the elytra deeper and distinctly transversely punctate, 

 intervals a little raised (in typical durbanensis they are 

 quite plane). The pattern is the same, but less developed, 

 the submedian patch being usually separated from the sub- 

 marginal band by a considerable interval of the ground- 

 colour. The pygidium is pale reddish instead of piceous, 

 and all my examples have conspicuously developed tubercles 

 at their outer angles, which are wanting in both sexes of 

 the numer^ms examples of durbanensis that I have examined. 

 The colour beneath and of legs is jaler and the integument 

 smoother, acieulation only b^ing visible in the strongest 

 lights. 



Hab. Malvern, Natal. Common under bark. 



Specimens of these two races of durbanensis have been 

 compared for me with the type of L. insidiosa, Per., which 

 is in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) by my friend Dr. 

 G. A. K. Marshall, who pronounces then* as quite distinct 

 from that species. L. insidiosa was originally described by 



