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seldom, a very indistinct spot on the apical outer angle. Length 

 6^-7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn, Stellenbosch). 



Var. B. quadrinotatus, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1888, p. 75. 



Shape, size, and colomdng of type, and elytra with a similar outer 

 margin and anterior patch, but having also a discoidal more or less 

 rounded subpostical patch, and a very indistinct apical spot on the 

 posterior angle. Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



This variety is not unlike small examples of B. armiger, but the 

 elytra are more pubescent and the dorsal markings narrower and 

 not so well defined. 



Var. nigrikis, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1888, p. 75. 



Shape, size, and colouring of the type ; the elytra have only a 

 reddish^ outer margin, and the dorsal markings have disappeared 

 entirely. Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Constantia, Oudtshoorn). 



' Brachinus fallax. 



Head and prothorax red ; antennae reddish, with the second, third 

 and fourth joints black; head and prothorax very broadly punctured ; 

 elytra elongated, subparallel, black, covered with a long yellowish 

 pubescence, costate, with the costse narrow and sharp and the 

 intervals deeply punctured, black, with a lateral elongated patch 

 in the anterior part disconnected with the base and extending on 

 the sixth and seventh intervals, and a postical one situated on the 

 fifth, sixth and seventh intervals — both these patches are not always 

 very distinct ; under side and legs pale yellow ; abdomen infuscate. 

 Length 8-9 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere). 



Brachinus vittaticollis. Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iii., 1885, p. 75. 



Head, prothorax, and legs pale yellow ; head finely punctulate, 

 slightly pubescent with a postical, median, black patch ; prothorax 

 punctulate and with a broad, median, black band ; elytra sub- 

 parallel, very little convex, finely pubescent and very slightly costate, 

 black, with a triangular, yellowish red basal patch round the 

 scutellum, which is also yellowish red, and on each side a lateral 

 band of the same colour reaching from below the shoulder to about 

 one-third of the length and extending from the fifth costa to the 

 outer margin, a small dot on the third interval parallel with the 

 lateral band, and a sinuated supra-apical patch extending from close 



