1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 261 



yellow; abdomen infuscate at the tip; fourth joint of anterior tarsi 

 lobate, lobes short. Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 

 Hah. Natal (Frere). 



Lebia ceucifeea, Bohem., 



Plate VI., fig. 14. 



Ofvers. Vet. Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 7. 



Antennee, palpi, legs, and head brick-red, the latter closely punc- 

 tm-ed ; prothorax with the anterior angles much rounded, finely 

 aciculate, of a lighter red than the head, with the outer sides paler ; 

 elytra subparallel, narrowly punctato-striate, with the intervals 

 raised and subcarinate in the centre, pale yellow with a sutural 

 black band dilated at the base^ coalescing at about the median part 

 with a broad transverse band of the same colour bisinuate on the 

 upper and lower edge, and a lateral narrow black band covering the 

 eighth interval and part of the outer margin from the humeral angle, 

 until merging in the transverse fascia ; under side pale yellow, 

 apical abdominal segments infuscate ; fourth joint of the anterior 

 tarsi lobate, lobes long. Length 8 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Damar aland. 



Lebia natalensis, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1870, p. 220, pi. i., fig. 32. 



Antennae, palpi, head, and prothorax reddish yellow ; head finely 

 plicate lengthway ; prothorax with the anterior angles rounded, 

 aciculate, and with a short plication in the anterior margin, a little 

 paler than the head and with two infuscate patches on the disk ; elytra 

 elongate, a little ampliate behind, striate, the strige smooth, with the 

 intervals convex, pale yellow, with a quadrate black basal patch 

 extending on each side as far as the fifth stria, a narrow sutural line 

 and a transverse post-median band bisinuate on upper and lower 

 edges, and reaching the outer margins ; under side pale yellow. 

 Length 6 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Maritzburg, D' Urban). 



Lebia amabilis, 

 Plate VI., fig. 10. 

 Head brick-red, closely punctulate except on the neck, which is 

 smooth ; prothorax yellowish red, faintly aciculate, the outer angles 

 slightly rounded ; elytra subparallel, finely punctato-striate, with the 

 intervals plane, pale yellow with a post-median transverse band 

 reaching from one outer margin to the other, broader near suture on 

 the first and second intervals, and with a narrow infuscate line on 

 the first interval reaching from the posterior edge of the transverse 

 black band to the apex ; under side pale yellow, with the last 



