1892.] to the South African Coleopterous Fauna, 63 



Gen. Mylabris. Fabric. 



294. M. plaoiata Pall. 



Recorded from all parts cf Couth Africa. 



295. M. tricolor. Ger&t 



„ from 2satal, Trans\aal, Zambeze, Delagoa Bay. 



296. M. alterna. Cast. 



„ from ]Satal. 



297. M. scalaris. Mars. 



„ from 2s'Gami land. 



298. M. liquida. Erichs. 

 „ from Angola. 



299. M. palliata. Mars. 



„ from Caflraria (teste Marseul.) 



300. M. HOLOSERICEA. Klug. 



„ from Transvaal, Limpopo and Zambeze Rivers. 



301. M. hilaris. spec. nov. 



Oblonga, nigra, villositate flaoescente vestita ; antenn is pedibusque 

 nigris ; elytris vitta suturali lata, fasciis duabus transversis sinuatis 

 vittaque marginali ab humero ad fasciam posticam ducta flavis in 

 singulo ornatis. 



Long. 12-13, lat. 4-4i mm . 



Black, covered with a pale flavescent silky villosity ; antennae and 

 legs black ; head and prothorax densely villose ; elytra elongated, 

 shagreened, each one with a broad elongated patch running alongside 

 the suture to nearly the median part, and two transverse, much sinuated 

 bands reaching from the suture to the outer margin where they are 

 connected with a moderately broad marginal band reaching from the 

 second transverse fascia to the shoulder ; the second transverse 

 fascia is placed far above the apex ; underside very villose. 



Closely allied to M. holosericea, Klug, but less villose on the elytra, 

 the yellow bands of which are arranged in the same manner, but the 

 transverse ones are more sinuated and the marginal band does not 

 run round the apex of the suture as in M. holosericea, but stops at the 

 second ante-apical transverse band. ' 



