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widest part only one-third of the length ; from the suture to the second 
dorsal stria it is of equal width and gradually narrowed thence to the 
outer margin where it is one-fourth narrower than at the suture ; the 
posterior band is transversely ovate and does not reach quite either suture 
or outer margin, it is rufescent, but the inner part of the fore edge is more 
or less broadly yellow. 
Length 25-27 mm. ; width 9-10 mm. 
Hab. Amatongaland. 
I have not recorded this species from anywhere but the Maputa Eiver. 
Var. HOTTENTOTA, Fahr., 
Plate XXIII., fig. 8. 
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1870, p. 341. 
transversalis, Mars., Monogr., p. 400, pi. iv., fig. 2. 
Closely allied to M. tricolor, but the basal dorsal patch is reduced to 
a tiny yellow dot, and the lateral one is obliterated ; the anterior yellow 
band is very broad, the width being about equal to two-fifths of the length, 
the edges are not sinuate ; this yellow band is separated from an equally 
broad rufous brown band of the same shape which is, however, occasionally 
somewhat narrower ; in some examples the yellow and the rufous brown 
band coalesce. 
Length 23-29 mm. ; width 9-13 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Durban, Tugela Eiver). 
Yar. MYOPs, Fahr., 
Plate XXIII., fig. 9. 
Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1870, p. 341 ; Mars., Monogr., p. 404, pi. 4, fig. 4. 
Sculpture of the varieties tricolor, hottentota, &c., but usually smaller ; 
basal dorsal patch very small, ovate or briefly transverse, yellow, like the 
very small lateral spot ; anterior band yellow, narrow, being only equal to 
one-fifth of the whole length, slightly sinuate and slightly narrower at the 
outer margin than at the suture ; at some distance from this anterior band 
is a post-median and much broader reddish brown one of nearly equal 
width reaching from the suture to the outer margin, and the edges of 
which are not sinuate. 
Length 24-26 mm. ; width 8J-10 mm. 
Hab. Damaraland ; Ovampoland. 
I have seen a female example having a minute median yellow dot on 
the edge of the rufescent posterior band. 
Marseul wrongly quotes Chevrolat as having described this species in 
Guerin's Iconogr., 1844, p. 123, pi. 35, fig. 4. The figure is undoubtedly 
that of M. hcemacta, Fairm., var. namaqua. 
