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moderately closely punctate, except in the median basal part where 

 the punctures are fewer and more separated, the outer margin has a 

 broad white band reaching from apex to base, and there is occasion- 

 ally a rudimentary, short, discoidal white line, often reduced to a 

 mere dot, and as often entirely wanting ; the prothorax is more 

 abruptly sloping in front than in the other species of the genus ; 

 elytra somewhat short, the suture is raised, there is -a median 

 distinct costule on each side, and a shorter, less denned one between 

 the dorsal and the suture, they are covered with nearly seriate round 

 punctures, and have each a large humeral white patch with a smaller 

 one unconnected with it, and occasionally a third under it, two 

 superposed transverse ones in the posterior part between the suture 

 and the dorsal costa, along the outer margin, the upper one being the 

 largest, and one or two smaller ones partly coalescing in most cases 

 with a white line running along the margin from the base ; pygidium 

 with two large white macules ; abdominal segments each with a 

 small marginal macule and a broad band on each side, coxae and 

 epimera with a broad patch ; metasternum entirely white ; pectus 

 and femora clothed with a greyish-white pubescence ; abdominal 

 segments sparsely villose ; metasternum slightly grooved in the 

 anterior part. 



Length 15-18 mm. ; width 8-11 mm. 



Hab. British Bechuanaland (Macloutsie) ; Southern Ehodesia 

 (Upper Limpopo, Umfuli River) ; Ovampoland. 



In a small example which I believe to come from Ovampo- 

 land, the head has two small white spots at the base of the 

 clypeus, there is only one humeral patch on the elytra, the 

 marginal, sub-humeral band is very much reduced, and barely 

 reaches the end of the sinuate part. 



I have seen Boheman's type only, but I don't think that there is 

 any doubt that it is identical with Burmeister's species. 



Ehabdotis aulica, Oliv., 



Entom., i., 6, p. 15, pi. 2, fig. 7, pi. 8, fig. 67. 



Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 236, pi. 44, fig. 6. 



caffra, Lin., Syst. Nat. Ed. Gmel. i., 4, p. 1578. 

 nympha, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, hi., p. 51. 

 Var. intermedia, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., v., p. 563. 

 cya?iea, Schoch., Entom. Nachr., 1896, p. 84. 



Glossy green, with occasionally a slight flavescent tinge on the 

 elytra ; head somewhat closely punctate in front, and more broadly 

 at the base, slightly impressed laterally from above the eyes to the 



