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black above, ashy flavescent and silky underneath ; the five basal 
antennal joints black, the others deeply fuscous, nearly black ; elytra each 
with a more or less rounded orange-yellow patch, no lateral spot, anterior 
band also orange, interrupted in the centre, and thus divided into an ovate 
patch near the suture and a triangular one the base of which extends 
along the outer margin ; posterior band narrow and transverse from the 
suture to the centre, and with the lower part developed into a more or less 
quadrate patch reaching the outer margin. The livery is not unlike that 
of M. plagiata, but the colour of the antennae easily differentiates the two. 
Length 19 mm. ; width 6|-7 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Victoria West, Beaufort West). 
Mylabeis teistigma, Gerst., 
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1854, p. 694; Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 299, pi. 17, 
fig. 5 ; Mars., Monogr., p. 429, pi. 4, fig. 19. 
Black, clothed with black hairs on the under side, the legs, head, and 
prothorax; antennae yellow with the two basal joints black, third joint not 
much longer than the fourth, but cylindrical ; the anterior part of the 
elytra from the base to slightly past the median part is light straw-yellow, 
but at about one-half of the distance between the base and the hind 
margin are three small, transversely situated round spots, the hind margin 
is more or less strongly bi-sinuate ; the yellow part is somewhat densely 
pubescent, the pubescence being black and erect. 
This typical form seems to be the rarest, and I have not met 
with it. 
Length 17^ mm. 
Hab. Mozambique. 
Var. PERMUTANS, 
Plate XXIIL, figs. 23, 24. 
Like the type, but in addition to the anterior bands which have by 
coalescence invaded the whole anterior part of the elytra, except for the 
three round spots of the colour of the black ground which remain as 
vestiges of the part that divided the original two bands, there is a posterior 
narrow, yellow band, either strongly strangulated (pi. xxiii., fig. 24), or as 
often as not interrupted in the centre, and thus reduced to two patches 
(pi. xxiii., fig. 23), a juxta-sutural and a juxta-outer marginal, one, divided 
by a very narrow or narrow interval. 
Length 16-23 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe, Matoppos). 
