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prothorax is red, and the elytra black, or rufescent in the anterior 

 part ; occasionally, although seldom, the elytra are rufescent with a 

 broad sutural band fuscous black ; the number of white macules is 

 most irregular, and the two apical ventral segments are rufous in 

 these varietal forms. Head very closely punctulate, the punctures 

 on the frontal part slightly broader than on the clypeus ; prothorax 

 with' a very slight longitudinal median keel in the anterior part, the 

 pointed, central basal part is slightly depressed at the apex, the 

 surface is covered with deep, moderately remote punctures ; elytra 

 with the suture raised and with two high costae on each side, the 

 space between the suture and the first costa has two geminate 

 striae, and there are two in the second interval also but running 

 from the median part only ; the anterior is punctate, and so is the 

 humeral part and the deflexed sides ; pygidium closely aciculate ; 

 abdomen sparsely cicatricose punctate ; pectus moderately densely 

 hairy, strigillate punctate. 



Length 12-14 mm. ; width 7-8J mm. 



There is no end to the variation in colour of this species. I know 

 of a varietal form with the prothorax red and having two elongated 

 triangular discoidal black patches. I have verified the identity of 

 C. borni with C. varians from an examination of Schoch's type. 

 . Hab. Transvaal (Eustenburg, Northern Transvaal), the whole of 

 Bhodesia, Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



Clinteboides cabiosa, Jans., 

 Cistul. Entom., ii., 1877, p. 247. 

 hirta, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 102. 



Black, moderately shiny ; head and prothorax briefly pubescent ; 

 -elytra with seriate, remote, greyish setulose hairs mixed with a few 

 squamiform, lanceolate white ones, each elytron with small white 

 spots varying in number from nine to twelve ; head very closely 

 punctate ; prothorax covered with rugose sub-contiguous punctures 

 divided by a slightly raised wall on the sides, in the centre there is 

 a. raised longitudinal keel, almost obliterated in the anterior part but 

 very distinct in the posterior basal part ; elytra strongly bi-costate 

 on each side, and with the suture equally raised, each interval 

 between the suture and the costae bears two geminate striae, the 

 basal and humeral parts and also the deflexed sides are coarsely 

 punctate ; pygidium closely variolose punctate and with six white 

 macules ; sides of abdomen variolose punctate, briefly pubescent, 

 each segment with a white macule on the upper side ; pectus and 

 femora clothed with a dense flavescent pubescence. In one of my 



