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posterior margin produced obliquely towards the suture which is 

 acute at the apex ; legs moderately long ; tarsi setulose under- 

 neath, decreasing gradually, the fourth joint not incised; claws 

 pectinate. 



Hah. This genus is represented in North and South America, 

 Australia, New Zealand, the Malay Archipelago, Africa, Madagascar, 

 Burmah, Ceylon, and China. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Head and prothorax very dark brown, the latter broadly edged with 

 yellow ; elytra yellow, with a basal black band, a transverse median, , , , 



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sinuate one, and a narrow sinuate black line above the apex . . . . -j , • 



' ^ [equestris. 



Head and prothorax red, black bands on the elytra as in notata, 



but the posterior black line reaching the apex avicenula. 



Head and prothorax black, marginated with yellow ; elytra black 



with the outer margins yellow, and on each side two or four small 



sinuate patches of the same colour in the apical part fasciata. 



COPTODEBA NOTATA, Bohem., 



PI. vii., fig. 8, Insect. Caffr., i., p. 58. 



Head black ; palpi, antennae, and labrum rufescent ; head sub- 

 punctulated ; prothorax short, nearly twice as broad as long, black 

 on the disk and pale yellow on the sides ; elytra broader than the 

 prothorax, rectangular, deeply punctato-striate, with the intervals 

 carinate ; pale yellow, with three transverse black bands : a basal 

 one, produced in a blunt triangle below the scutellum, a broad 

 median one, connected along the suture with the point of the basal 

 one, extending from the suture to nearly the outer margin, longer 

 and rectangular along the suture, narrowed in the median part of 

 the third interval, broadening on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, 

 and eighth intervals, and connected along the outer margin with the 

 basal band, and a trisinuated, narrow, supra-apical one, often dis- 

 connected and replaced by three patches on each side, one in the 

 outer apical angle, the second a little higher on the fourth and fifth 

 interval, and the third one on the suture ; under side and legs pale 

 yellow, the sides often infuscated. Length 7-|— 8 mm. ; width 

 3-3^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere), Transvaal (Potchefstroom ?), Zambezia 

 (Salisbury). 



COPTODEEA EQUESTRIS, Bohem., 



Insect. Caffr., i., p. 59. 



G. spilota, Motsch., Bull. Mosc, 1864, iii., p. 222. 



Almost identical with C. notata, differs from it, according to Bohe- 

 man, mainly in the head being more deeply aciculated, the anterior 



