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rounded, scarcely aciculate on the disk, and with the margins rugu- 

 lose ; elytra subparallel, very flat, striated, with the intervals plane, 

 pale yellow, with a discoidal, post-median, quadrate, black or infus- 

 cate patch extending on the first four intervals, encroaching a little 

 on the fifth, the posterior edge of that patch does not reach the apex; 

 under side pale yellow ; abdominal segments infuscate ; posterior 

 tarsi with the fourth joint short and lobate. Length 6 mm. ; width 

 2|— 2J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



Lebia fuscula, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1871, p. 221. 



Chaudoir compares this species with L. turcica in his description, 

 loc. cit., and adds : Head and disk of the prothorax brownish, the 

 edges of the last-named part ferruginous yellow ; elytra yellowish 

 brown, lighter in colour towards the base and along the lateral sides ; 

 epipleurse, under side, legs, palpi, and antennae of a moderately light 

 yellow ; edges of the abdominal segments and also the apical one 

 infuscate. Length 4^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (D' Urban), teste Chaud. 



Lebia speciosa. 



Head black, very closely aciculate ; palpi black ; antennae fuscous, 

 with the three basal joints slightly rufescent ; prothorax brick-red, 

 very finely and closely punctulate ; elytra black, with a faint greenish 

 tinge, striate, with the intervals plane and finely and closely punctu- 

 late ; pectus and abdomen black ; legs red ; fourth joint of the anterior 

 tarsi broadly bilobate. Length 5 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Lebia picipennis, Motsch., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1864, p. 226. 



Facies of Lebia cyanocephala but larger, and with the elytra 

 piceous, oblong, subdepressed, hardly shining, ferruginous-red ; 

 elytra piceous, black ; head and prothorax roughly punctate, the 

 latter reflexed, with the posterior angles straight ; elytra broader 

 than the prothorax by one-half, subparallel, deeply striate, the striae 

 punctate, and the third one bifoveolate, apical part truncate sub- 

 obliquely ; pygidium very prominent, testaceous red and carinulate 

 longitudinally in the middle (male). Length 8f mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



This species might be identical with L. iinmaculata or L. 

 fraterna. 



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