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Var. guttata, Lequien, Mag. Zool., CI. ix., p. 13. 



Shape, size, and sculpture of A. decemguttata, but the intervals on 

 the elytra are quite hairless, and the five white spots on the elytra 

 larger and rounder, but the median one on the second interval is very 

 small. Length 33-40 mm. ; width 12-14 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester, Namaqualand, Bushmanland). 



Yar. alboguttata, Degeer, Ins., vii., p. 624, pi. 46, figs. 15, 16. 



Differs from the preceding variety merely in having three white 

 spots on each elytron ; the median one on the second interval and 

 the post-median one on the first interval are wanting, although the 

 median one is sometimes discernible ; intervals hairless. Length 

 27-40 mm. ; width 10-15 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Tulbagh, Eobertson). 



Var. stolida. 



Shape, size, and colouring of alboguttata, but the intervals of the 

 elytra are hidden under a thick yellowish grey pubescence, each 

 elytron has three white round or ovate spots, but the humeral and 

 apical ones are much larger than the post-median one on the third 

 interval, which is reduced to a mere dot. Length 38-39 mm. ; width 

 10-14 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna?, Oudtshoorn). 



Var. vorax. 



Shape, size, and colouring of stolida; intervals of elytra equally 

 covered with a greyish brown pubescence, the post-median white dot 

 has disappeared entirely, and the apical one is almost obliterated. 

 Length 33-38 mm. ; width 11-14 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Ladismith). 



Anthia omoplata, Lequien, 

 Mag. Zool., 1832, CI. ix., pi. 39. 



Head punctulated, impressed on each side with a median eleva- 

 tion, no pubescence ; prothorax hairless, smooth, with a few fine 

 scattered punctures, a fine median longitudinal groove and a slightly 

 arcuate transverse impression in the anterior part ; elytra oblong, 

 but more attenuated in the anterior than in the posterior part, con- 

 vex, narrowly punctato-striate, with the intervals convex from base 

 to apex, but less so behind than near the anterior part, and having 

 on each side a subhumeral broad ovate pubescent yellowish white 

 patch, consisting of three short elongated bands, the outer and inner 

 shorter and narrower than the median one, which covers the fifth 

 and sixth intervals, while the others cover the fourth and seventh 

 respectively, and also a supra-marginal broad yellowish white 



