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laterally it is connected from the outer margin to the median dorsal part 
with a much narrower band reaching from the suture to the outer margin, 
the slightly post-median space of the background left being in the shape of 
a broad, rufous brown triangle across the suture, the posterior band has a 
broad edge of rufous brown. 
Length 21-23 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 
Hah. Natal (Durban, Frere, Maritzburg). 
Var. viCAEiA, 
Plate XXIII., fig. 5. 
Shape, size and sculpture of the var. transitoria ; differs by the shape 
of the elytral yellow bands ; basal dorsal spot moderately large, lateral 
small, anterior transverse band broad, the width being about one-fourth of 
the length, the edges are not sinuate, the posterior band, instead of being 
entirely yellow, is rufous brown, of nearly the same width as the anterior, 
and edged in the fore part by a narrow yellow band reaching from the 
suture to about the middle ; near the outer margin is a small yellow dot. 
This yellow anterior edging of the posterior band is probably uninterrupted 
in certain examples of this variety, but I have not as yet met with 
any such. 
Length 24 mm. ; width 7 mm. 
Hah. Natal (Durban). 
Var. TEicoLOK, Gerst., 
Plate XXIIL, fig. 6. 
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1854, p. 694; Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 297, pi. 17, 
fig. 11; Mars., Mon., p. 461, pi. 5, fig. 39. 
Head and prothorax very finely punctulate ; basal dorsal yellow patch 
transversely ovate, lateral one nearly as large, anterior band yellow, very 
broad, the width being equal to half the length, and the posterior edge is 
slightly bisinuate, the posterior band is red, only one-third of the width of 
the anterior, and slightly narrowed at the suture and at the outer margin 
which makes it look as if it were transversely ovate. 
Length 29-31 mm. ; width 11-12 mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Matoppos, Salisbury, Sebakwe), Mozam- 
bique (Louren9o Marquez, Beira). 
Yar. AMATONGA, 
Plate XXIII., fig. 7. 
Smaller than M. tricolor^ sculpture and vestiture similar, the basal 
dorsal yellow patch is small, and the lateral one has disappeared ; the 
anterior yellow band is much less broad than in M. tricolor, being at its 
