1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 27 



Var. Oberthuri, Pering. 



Ann. and Magaz. Nat. His., 1888, p. 21. 



Size and colouring of the preceding variety ; the basal dot on each 

 side of the scutellum is also missing ; the oblique dorsal fascia is longer, 

 less curved, and does not reach the shoulder ; there is no diseoidal spot, 

 and the postical band, not much broader than the suture, ascends along 

 the outer margin to about half the len^^th of the elytron. 



Length, 23 ; width, 8"^'™- 



Zambeze River. 



Yar. Erikssoni, Pering, 



Third Contr. etc.. Tr. S. A. Phil. Soc. 1892, p. 4. 



Colouring of var. Olerthiiri ; the basal dot on each side of the 

 scutellum is wanting ; the oblique dorsal fascia is narrow, curved, and 

 reaches the humeral angle, and the outer margin from about the 

 medium part has a white band, broadening towards the apex and 

 emitting a short slanting: dorsal ramus. 



Length, 23 ; width, 8™*""- 



Ovampoland. 



0. BoHEMANi, Pering. 



Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1888, p. 220. 



Head and pro thorax of 0. rufomarginata, and equally pilose ; each 

 elytron with a very broad, golden-yellow sinuated band, disconnected 

 from the margin and the sutare, narrowed in the median part, where 

 it encloses a small rounded spot (background), enlarged from past the 

 middle, narrowed towards the apex, and forming within the subapical 

 sutural part a dent which leaves an irregular triangular patch of the 

 background visible. Legs and underside as in 0. rufomarginata. 



Length, 21 ; width, T"^""' 



Angfola. 



