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Mylabris plagiata, Pall., 
Plate XXIII., figs. 17, 18. 
Icon., p. 77, pi. E, fig. 3a; Mars., Monogr., p. 405, pi. iv., fig. 5. 
oculata, Billb., Monogr., p. 46, pi. 5, figs. 6-10. 
thwibergi, Cast., Hist. Nat. Ins., ii., p. 269. 
Black, with the patches and bands on the elytra bright yellow ; between 
the two transverse bands of the elytra is a juxta-sutural longitudinal 
rufescent band reaching from the suture to the centre ; antennae bright 
yellow, with the five basal joints black ; head and prothorax coarsely 
punctate, the impressions on the latter very deep, pubescence long, dense, 
black ; elytra each with a more or less rounded dorsal basal patch, but 
without any lateral one, anterior band narrow, broadening slightly along 
the outer margin, the edges little sinuate, posterior band either very little 
wider than the anterior, a little acuminate at both ends and plainly 
bi-sinuate on each border (fig. 17), or broadly dilated laterally, where it 
is twice the width of the part abutting near the suture (fig. 18). The 
pubescence of the under side is black, but in the varietal form it is 
greyish flavescent. 
Length 22-24 mm. ; width 8 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Hex Eiver, Prince Albert, Paarl, Ceres, 
Beaufort West). 
Mylabris h^macta, Fairm.,« 
Plate XXIII., fig. 19. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Er., 1888, p. 198. 
Head and prothorax still more coarsely punctate than in M. plagiata ; 
the two basal antennal joints are black, and the other three infuscate, the 
impressions on the prothorax are very distinct, and the pubescence is 
dense and black ; on the elytra there is no basal dorsal yellowish patch ; 
the anterior band is very narrow, not sinuate, pale yellow edged with a 
sub-orange-brown narrow border, the posterior band is orange-yellow, 
strongly slanting, and in width a little more than two-fifths of the length 
with the borders not sinuate, the anterior edge has a narrow, sub-orange- 
brown border. 
Length 25 mm. ; width 8 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Kakamas). 
