1896.] of the ColeoiAera of South, Africa. 363 



length and reaching the apex. Length 25-32 mm. ; width 8- 

 9|- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Carnarvon, Fraserburg). 



This species, equaUy distinct from A. biguttata and A. liiiibata and 

 their varieties, is, however, a link between the two. 



Anthia limbata, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., v., 1831, p. 466. 



Head and prothorax as in A. biguttata; head very pubescent, 

 also the median part of the prothorax and the outer margins ; elytra 

 elongated, with the anterior angles sloping and the outer sides 

 parallel, plane, with the intervals slightly convex and with a series 

 of setigerous punctures on each side ; the hairs sparse, short, decum- 

 bent, on the sixth and seventh intervals, a small diagonal juxta- 

 sutural band on each side and an elongated wliite patch coalescing 

 with a supra-marginal band reaching from below^ the shoulder to the 

 suture. Length 28-29 mm. ; width 9-10 mm. 



Hab. Orange Free State (Cronstad), , Transvaal (Potchefstroom 

 Ovampoland). 



Anthia cephalotes, Gu6r., 



Plate IV., fig. 10. 

 Eev. ZooL, 1845, p. 285. 



A. binotata, Perr., Ann. Soc. Lyon, 1846, p. 30. 

 A. bimaculata, Perr., loc. cit., p. 30. 



Head and prothorax as in A. limbata, but the hairs instead of 

 being white are fulvous ; elytra punctato-striate, with the intervals 

 slightly raised in the anterior part, but hardly convex from the 

 median part to the apex; dull black, with a subhumeral elongated 

 narrow yellow patch, either perpendicular and then extending on the 

 fifth, sixth, and seventh intervals {binotata) — these three intervals 

 show a sinuation for the reception of the patch — or broadly ovate or 

 diagonal when it extends from the third to the seventh [bimaculata), 

 outer margin with a moderately broad white band reaching from the 

 median part of the subhumeral patch to the suture ; there is also a 

 short diagonal basal tomentose line on each side below the scutellum. 



More robust than A. limbata, with the prothorax wider and more 

 convex ; the difference in the size of the subhumeral patch is 

 considerable, but it is a curious fact that the intervals form a sinua- 

 tion according to the size of the tomentose patch, that is to say if the 

 patch reaches from the fifth to the seventh intervals, all three will be 

 sinuated so as to enclose it, if from the fourth to the eighth, the 

 four are sinuated ; in spite of that the tomentum invades sometimes 

 further than the sinuation. Length 26-35 mm. ; width 9-11 mm. 



Hab. Natal (D' Urban), Tran-svaal (Rustenburg, Upper Limpopo), 

 Zambezia (Buluwayo). 



