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each side for about one-fifth of the length, and connected along the 

 suture by a band extending to the second intervals with a transverse 

 post-median band covering an equal space between the median and 

 apical parts, slightly sloping on the upper edge with the lower edge 

 emarginate in the centre ; this band reaches the supra-marginal 

 stria on each side; fourth joint of all the tarsi long and lobate. 

 Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



The nearest ally to this species is L. natalensis, Catal., p. 261, but 

 L. fortuita is differentiated by the more elongated shape of the elytra 

 which are not quite so rounded laterally, and by the intervals which 

 are nearly plane instead of being convex ; the colouring is nearly 

 the same, but more shining ; the upper edge of the transverse patch 

 is more sloping and not sinuate, and the band itself does not extend 

 as far towards the margin as that of L. natalensis ; the latter has 

 also two sub-infuscate patches on the prothorax entirely wanting in 

 L, fortuita. 



Hab. Natal (Malvern). 



Lebia congruens. 



Briefly pubescent on the upper side, pale testaceous with the 

 prothorax and head a little redder, antennae with the exception of 

 the three basal joints infuscate ; head and prothorax closely and 

 finely punctured, the latter very briefly pubescent laterally ; elytra 

 one-third broader at base than the prothorax, almost sub-parallel with 

 the shoulders well rounded, finely striate with the striae punctulate, 

 intervals plane and punctulate ; they have a basal quadrate patch 

 reaching the fourth interval on each side, and connected at about 

 one-fourth of the length by a slender sutural band extending to the 

 first stria with a post-median transverse patch, both edges of which 

 are deeply sinuate on the fourth interval, and which reaches on each 

 side the supra-marginal stria ; this band is equidistant from the 

 median and the apical band, and is broadest in the sutural part as far 

 as the third stria ; fourth joint of the intermediate and posterior 

 tarsi incised. Length 4^ mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Allied to L. eximia, Catal., p. 259, which it should follow. Like 

 that species it is finely punctulate on head and prothorax, and the 

 punctures and pubescence of the elytra are similar, but in 

 L. congruens the basal black patch is not so long, the sutural band 

 connecting it with the post-median transverse band is very slender, 

 and the transverse band is also less wide, and the outer parts of it 

 much narrower than in the median one. 



Hab. Transvaal (Hamman's Kraal). 



