1896.] of the ColeojJtera of South Africa. 365 



Easily distinguished from the above-described varieties by the 

 more massive facies, the broader and thicker prothorax, the more 

 convex elytra, and the absence of dorsal white patch. 



Hah. Transvaal (Middelbm^g) , Middle Limpopo, Mozambique 

 (Lebombo). 



Var. dcscrtorum, Thoms., Arc. Natur., 1859, p. 116. 



Head, prothorax, and elytra as in ^. cephalotes ; prothorax (judging 

 from the examples I have seen) vv^ithout any lateral pubescent bands ; 

 the sculpture of the elytra is the same, but they have no dorsal white 

 patch or vestige of it whatever, and the marginal white band instead 

 of beginning below the shoulder starts from the third part of the 

 length. Length 28-29 mm. ; width 8-8|- mm. 



Hah. Ovampoland. 



Anthia decemguttata, Linn., 



Syst. Nat. i., p. 669 ; Oliv., Entom., iii., 35, p. 23, pi. 9, fig. Ibc ; 



Guer., Icon. Insect., pi. 4, fig. 1. 



Head very rugose, with a median much-raised costa and an 

 equally high lateral one reaching from about the point of insertion of 

 the antennas to the median part of the orbital ridge, median part of 

 the neck not punctured ; prothorax not longer than the head, the 

 anterior part semicircular from the outer angle to a little short of 

 the middle aculeate, narrowed from there to the base, the outer 

 margins sharp and slightly recurved, convex on the disk, which is 

 divided in two by a deep narrow median longitudinal groove reaching 

 from the base to near the apex and merging there in a transverse 

 depression, sparsely but deeply punctured, hairless and with a white 

 more or less rounded pubescent patch in the anterior angle ; elytra 

 with the humeral angles very sloping, gradually ampliated from the 

 base to four-fifths of the length, and but slightly attenuated from 

 there towards the apex, the posterior part slightly oblique, and 

 incised at the suture, moderately convex, each elytron with four 

 much-raised acute costas reaching from base to apex, the intervals 

 very broad with two series of deep punctures, nearly hairless, with 

 five elongated white patches arranged as follows : a humeral one on 

 the fourth interval ; a smaller one slightly above the middle in the 

 second interval ; one, the longer of the two, in the third, and parallel 

 with a smaller one in the first interval ; and an apical, more or less 

 ovate one in the second ; legs and under side black, rugose. Length 

 30-35 mm. ; width 11-12^ mm. 



This species seems to have a very limited area of distribution, 

 being restricted to a radius of less than forty miles from Cape Town. 



Hah. Cape C6lony (Cape, Stellenbosch, Paarl). 



