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side, one on the sixth, the other on the eighth interval, the latter 

 slightly nearer the shoulder than the one on the sixth interval, and 

 two supra-apical ones on the same interval, the outer one of which 

 is the smaller of the two and placed a little lower than the one on 

 the sixth interval ; tarsi set with dense, bristly pubescence beneath. 

 Length 17-18 mm. ; width 6-6f mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



The shape of the prothorax is intermediate between that of 

 E. ornatum, Bohem., and of oxygonum, Chaud., but the shape of the 

 elytra is similar to that of oniatum and difficile ; the four yellow 

 oblong patches on each elytron are very peculiar. Captured near 

 the small lake of Eikatla, not far from the town of Louren9o-Marquez, 

 by the Bev. Junod, to whom I am greatly indebted for the com- 

 munication of some rare or hitherto undescribed species of Coleop- 

 tera found in that locality. 



EuDEMA (Epicosmus) PRETiosuM, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1837, iii., p. 19. 



Black, shining, very briefly pubescent ; head moderately broad, 

 with neck short, smooth in the anterior part above the epistoma, very 

 rugose laterally and behind ; third joint of antennae a little longer 

 than the two following ; prothorax one-third broader than long, 

 nearly twice as broad as the head at the apex, gradually rounded 

 from the anterior angle to long past the median part, posterior one 

 subdiagonal, very slightly sinuate, and with a slight indentation 

 above the posterior angle, base not produced behind, disk very 

 rugose, plane, with the posterior outer sides much recurved ; elytra 

 nearly truncate at the base, with the shoulders very slightly 

 rounded, as broad as the prothorax, elongated, parallel, a little 

 convex behind, narrowly punctato-striate with the intervals mode- 

 rately convex and punctured, and having on each side two bright 

 yellow patches, consisting of five elongated, coalescing yellow 

 patches placed on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth intervals : 

 in the anterior patch the two lines on the fourth and fifth intervals 

 are shorter than the others, while in the posterior patch, which is 

 narrower than the anterior, the first and second lines, as well as the 

 fifth, are shorter than the other two ; tarsi bristly underneath. 

 Length 17 mm. ; width 7-7^ mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Eustenburg), Natal (D' Urban). 



Gen. ISOTAESUS, Laferte, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1851, p. 217. 

 Most of the generic characters are identical with Eudema, but 



