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not so plane as in L. nobilis, yellow, with a sutural black band 

 extending on the two first intervals on each side from the base to 

 two-thirds of the length and merging there into a transverse band 

 extending from side to side, reaching the apex and slightly jagged 

 in the anterior part ; legs and under side pale yellow ; abdominal 

 segments black. Length 8 mm. ; width 3|- mm. 



This species much resembles L. nobilis ; the elytra are, however, 

 slightly more convex, and the posterior black patch covers only one- 

 third of the length instead of nearly two-thirds. 



Hab. Natal (Frere). 



Lebia (Nematopeza) modesta, Bohem., 



Plate VI., fig. 17. 



Insect. Caffr,, i., p. 51. 



Lebia masJiuana, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, vol. vi., 

 part ii., p. 96. 



Head, three basal joints of antennae, apical part of palpi, legs, and 

 median part of prothorax brick-red ; head and prothorax punctulate, 

 the latter is more quadrate than in the preceding species ; elytra 

 subparallel, somewhat convex, deeply punctato-striate, with the 

 intervals very convex and carinate in the centre, black, with a narrow, 

 reddish sutural and marginal line and a humeral yellow band on 

 each side reaching from the base to a little more than one-third of 

 the length, extending on the fourth, fifth, and sixth intervals at the 

 base, and invading the third in the posterior part ; under side 

 yellowish red. Length 8 mm. ; width 3-|- mm. 



Hab. Zambezia (Middle Limpopo). 



Lebia (? Nematopeza) insidiosa. 



Antennae, labrum, and palpi rufescent ; head black, closely punc- 

 tured; prothorax with the anterior angles much rounded as in L. 

 nobilis, finely aciculate, brick-red in the centre, with the outer sides 

 reddish yellow; elytra subparallel, hardly convex, narrowly punctato- 

 striate with the intervals slightly raised, yellow, with a sutural black 

 band reaching from the base to a certain distance from the apex, 

 covering the first two intervals on each side, dilated at base and 

 apex in a subquadrate patch extending as far as the third interval, 

 and a supra-marginal band running along the seventh interval from 

 the base to about the middle, dilated triangularly from there for 

 about one-fourth of the length as far as the fifth interval, and 

 emitting occasionally a faint short spur towards the posterior 

 sutural patch; legs pale yellow; abdominal segments black. 

 Length 1-Q\ mm. ; width 3-1 mm. 



The colouring of the elytra approximates that of i. plagiata, 



