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apex, where it becomes bifid, extending from the suture to the fifth 

 stria, and emitting at about the middle of the discoidal part a sub- 

 quadrate or elongated patch of the same colour, reaching from the fifth 

 stria to the sixth, with a fainter one below it, and occasionally an 

 infuscate line on the seventh interval ; under side pale yellow ; abdo- 

 men somewhat infuscate. Length 6J-8 mm. ; width 3-3-|- mm. 



In some male examples the whole of the markings on the elytra 

 coalesce, making a single dorsal patch. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Ceres, Worcester). 



Metaxymoephus pictus, n. sp., 

 Plate v., fig. 2. 



Light testaceous, shining ; head and labrum black ; antennae and 

 palpi rufescent ; prothorax reddish, with two longitudinal infuscate 

 patches on the disk ; elytra finely striate, semi-transparent, with a 

 sutural infuscated band reaching from the suture to the fifth stria, 

 and emitting one median and another supra-postical parallel diagonal 

 irregular bands directed towards the base, and united by an ill-defined 

 perpendicular line running on the sixth interval ; under side pale 

 yellow; abdomen deeply infuscate. Length G-J mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn). 



Metaxymoephus agilis, n. sp., 

 Plate v., fig. 3. 



Light testaceous ; head black ; labrum and antennae yellowish red ; 

 prothorax testaceous, with two broad black patches on the disk ; 

 elytra elongated, not quite so much amplified in the centre as in the 

 other two species, finely striate, semi-transparent, with a sutural,, 

 narrow, infuscate band covering the first interval on each side, and 

 two narrow bands of the same colour on the sixth and eighth intervals ; 

 the band on the sixth interval reaches nearer the apex than the second 

 one, which is produced nearer to the base; these two bands coalesce 

 occasionally on the seventh interval. Length 8 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn). 



Metaxymoephus cuesoe, n. sp., 

 Plate v., fig. 4. 



Light testaceous ; head black ; labrum pale red ; prothorax with 

 two broad black bands extending from base to apex ; elytra finely 

 striate, semi-transparent, with the first and fourth intervals slightly 

 infuscate from base to apex, the sixth interval from the middle to the 

 apex, and having a blackish line of the seventh stria ; under side 

 testaceous. Length 7 mm. ; width 2|— 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town ?). 



