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apex; the posterior part of the margin is recurved from where it 

 narrows, but not angular, while the basal angles are sharp, and the 

 base straight and not projecting ; it is setulose and very roughly 

 shagreened ; elytra one-fourth broader than the prothorax at the 

 base, a little rounded at the shoulders, oblongo-ovate, somewhat 

 convex, striate, pubescent, finely shagreened, and having on each 

 side two yellow patches ; the first, near the shoulder, is somewhat 

 aculeate from the outer margin to the third stria, and nearly straight ; 

 the supra-apical one is slanting, narrower than the first, and extends 

 from the third to the seventh interval inclusive ; under side 

 punctured, pubescent. Length 19 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Broader than E. omatum, Catal., p. 478 ; this species is easily dis- 

 tinguished from it by the more ampliate prothorax ; the colour of the 

 patches on the elytra are paler yellow, and they are much narrower. 



Hob. Natal (Lower M'Komas Eiver). 



Follows E. difficile, Catal., p. 479. 



EUDEMA SEXMACULATUM, 



Plate XL, fig. 5. 



Black, shining, and briefly pubescent ; elytra with a humeral and 

 two yellow dorsal patches on each side ; head long, smooth in the 

 middle of the anterior part, very rugose laterally and behind ; third 

 joint of antennae not so long as the two following ; prothorax similar 

 in shape to that of E. pretiosum, but less sinuate laterally behind 

 above the basal angle which is also more acute, base not sinuate ; 

 disk very rugose, sides reflexed in the anterior part, but less than in 

 E. pretiosum ; elytra straight at base, oblong, one-fourth broader 

 than the prothorax, deeply punctato-costate with the intervals cari- 

 nate ; they have on each side a short, humeral yellow band on the 

 eighth interval, a transverse patch placed slightly before the median 

 part of the disk, extending on the fourth, fifth, and sixth intervals, 

 and consisting of three very short bands hardly connected in the 

 stria, and with the inner one the longest of the three, also another 

 narrow patch, slightly sinuate, extending from the fourth to the eighth 

 interval, and situated at a short distance from the apex, at the top of 

 the posterior declivity ; tarsi bristly underneath. Length 20 mm. ; 

 width 8 mm. 



The general appearance is not unlike that of E. pretiosum, Catal., 

 p. 480, both having a broad prothorax, but it is easily recognisable 

 owing to the humeral elongate macule on each side of the elytra, 



