Descri'ptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Soiith Africa. 191 
Var. NAMAQUA, 
Plate XXIIL, fig. 20. 
oculata, Guer., Icon. E6gn. Anim. Ins., 1844, p. 133, pi. 35, fig. 4. 
my ops, Mars., Monogr., p. 404, pi. iv., fig. 4. 
This variety so closely resembles M. lavaterce that it might be taken 
for the latter in spite of a difference in the shape of the markings of 
the elytra, the bands and spots of which are however of the same colour, 
but the antennae are plainly yellow with the five basal joints black 
instead of being entirely fuscous black ; head and prothorax very finely 
and closely punctate, the punctures however are irregular, impressions on 
the disk very plain ; elytra with a rounded dorsal basal yellow patch, no 
lateral, anterior band moderately narrow, the edges suffused with orange, 
posterior band very broad, not slanting, orange-yellow, the edges hardly 
sinuate, but the hind one slightly rounded. 
Length 27 mm. ; width 10 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (O'Kiep, Namaqualand). 
Mylabeis lavatee^. Fabric, 
Plate XXIIL, fig. 21. 
Syst. Eleuth., ii., 1801, p. 83 ; Billb., Monogr., p. 10, pi. 1, fig. 7; Mars., 
Monogr., p. 45a, pi. v., fig. 38. 
pustulata, Thunb., Diss. Ins. Nov. Sp., vi., p. 114 ; Oliv., Ent., iii., 47, 
p. 4, pi. 1, fig. 1. 
Head and prothorax very closely punctulate, the punctures small, deep 
but uneven ; the five antennal basal joints black, the others black, opaque, 
or very darkly fuscous ; pubescence on the head and prothorax dense, 
long, black; elytra with an ovate orange-yellow basal dorsal patch, the 
anterior band is somewhat narrow, incised on each side in the middle but 
the lower incision is the deeper of the two, or it is broader but the lateral 
part, from the incision to the outer margin, is narrower than the part 
abutting on the suture, posterior band also orange-yellow, broader 
than the anterior, slanting from the median dorsal part to the outer 
margin, hind border sub-sinuate or uni-sinuate. 
Length 23-25 mm. ; width 8 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl, Ceres, Tulbagh, Worcester). 
Mylabeis testudo. Mars., 
Plate XXIIL, fig. 22. 
Monogr., p. 462, pi. v., fig. 40. 
Black, elytra with a longitudinal, nearly median, rufescent zone 
reaching from the anterior to the posterior transverse bands, pubescence 
