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pubescence long, dense, black ; elytra with a round, basal, dorsal yellow 
patch, and an elongated lateral spot, anterior band yellow, narrow, some- 
what constricted in the centre, posterior one also yellow, not much wider 
than the anterior, broadly interrupted in the centre, and thus divided 
into a sutural and a marginal patch, the latter shorter and not quite as 
wide as the former ; these spots and bands are edged with reddish brown. 
Length 15-16 mm. ; width 6 mm. 
Hah. Damaraland. 
Mylabeis scalaris, Mars., 
Plate XXIII., figs. 13, 14, 15. 
Monogr., p. 407, pi. iv., fig. 6. 
Black; antennae reddish yellow, with the three basal joints black, head 
and prothorax covered with closely set, moderately deep punctures, 
pubescence long, dense, black ; elytra with a basal dorsal large orange- 
yellow patch somewhat transverse, but occasionally reaching the suture 
and coalescing there with the anterior band, no lateral spot ; anterior 
band orange-yellow, very broad at the suture, but triangularly narrowed 
thence to the outer margin where the width is reduced by about one-third, 
the posterior band is narrower than the anterior, also broader at the suture, 
somewhat slanting towards the outer margin where it is also reduced in 
width by about one-third, and both the edges are bi-sinuate ; the space 
separating the two bands is extremely narrow across the suture, and often 
the posterior is connected there with the anterior band. 
Length 24-26 mm. ; width 9-lOJ mm. 
Hah. Northern Damaraland. 
Mylabeis tettensis, Gerst., 
Plate XXIII., fig. 16. 
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1854, p. 694; Peter's Eeis., p. 298, pi. 17, fig. 12 ; 
Mars., Monogr., p. 422, pi. iv., fig. 14. 
Black ; antennae yellow, with the four basal joints black ; head and 
prothorax covered with round punctures separated from each other by a 
quite smooth interval equal to their own diameter ; the pubescence is long 
and erect, but not very dense, and in the frontal part the impressed line is 
hardly distinct ; elytra without dorsal or lateral basal patch or spot, the 
anterior band, which ascends in the median part towards the base, is very 
broad, orange-yellow, and the hind border is slightly bi-sinuate, the 
posterior is not quite as broad as the anterior, and its width is narrowed 
laterally by one-third, the hind border is sinuose. 
Length 26 mm. ; width 9 mm. 
Hah. Mozambique (Beira). 
