356 Descrijytive Catalogue ri896. 



Synojjsis of Species. 



Elytra with six equal costse on each side septemgiittata. 



Elytra with the sixth costa on each side more raised than 

 the others triincatipennis. 



Cycloloba septemguttata, Fabric, 



Syst. Eleuth., i., p. 222. 



C. sexnotata, Thunb., Sch. Syn. Insect., i., p. 233. 

 C. pilosa, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 105. 



Head broad, very rugose, with some scattered black rigid hairs 

 and a golden yellow short pubescence, leaving the median part 

 denuded ; prothorax closely punctured, with a transverse arcuated 

 impression in the anterior part and a narrow^ median one. the edge 

 of the lateral margin slightly recurved, pilose, with a short black 

 tomentum in well-preserved examples, a median flavescent band in 

 the longitudinal depression and a broader one on each side of the 

 lateral margins ; scutellary region with an ovate yellow patch ; 

 elytra with the base straight, the outer sides very slighted ampliated 

 at about the middle and with the posterior part truncated at an 

 acute angle, slightly convex, each elytron with eight moderately 

 raised costae, with the intervals filled with short yellow hairs, and 

 having behind a few long rigid black bristles, a humeral round spot, 

 a median one on the third interval, and an apical one at the end of 

 the fifth and sixth costae, and a short subdiagonal basal band of 

 the same colour near the scutellum. Length 23-25 mm. ; width 

 8-9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, Seymour), 

 Natal (Maritzburg, Eshowe, Escourt), Transvaal (Leydenburg, 

 Maghaliesberg). 



Cycloloba teuncatipennis, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 104. 



Shape, size, and colouring of C. septemguttata ; elytra also Avith eight 

 costae on each side, but the sixth one is more raised than the others, 

 and this gives it a more parallel look ; the yellow markings and the 

 pubescence are alike, but the median dot on the third costa is wanting. 

 Length 25 mm. ; width 9 mm. 



Boheman's type is the only example I have seen ; the abrupt 

 truncature of the elytra mentioned by this author is not much more 

 pronounced than in some examples of septemguttata, and I should 

 not be surprised if the sixth costa, being more raised than the others, 

 was merely accidental, in which case this species \\'\\\ prove to be 

 identical with septemguttata. 



Hah. Interior of Caffraria. 



