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tri-sinuate, the outer marginal angle extendiDg sometimes considerably 
further than the sutural (fig. 28) ; occasionally this border is produced 
into a short ramus, dilated at apex towards the median part, and is 
interrupted along the outer margin (fig. 29). 
Length 13-14 mm. ; width 5-5|- mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia. 
Mylabris teipunctata, Thunb., 
Plate XXIII., figs. 30, 31. 
Diss. Nov. Ins. Spec, vi., p. 112 ; Billb., Monogr., p. 29, pi. 3, figs. 14-16 ; 
Mars., Monogr., p. 486, pi. v., fig. 49. 
Black, clothed with a dense black pubescence ; antennal joints black, 
third joint nearly twice the length of the fourth ; head and pro thorax 
finely and closely aciculate punctate, frontal line indistinct ; elytra light 
yellow, the yellow colour having invaded the background to such an 
extent that the black background is reduced to three small black spots 
disposed somewhat diagonally in the anterior part ; past the middle are 
two black patches of the same colour which vary in size, but the outer or 
marginal is larger than the juxta-sutural, and at the apex there is left a 
moderately broad, sinuate black band of the original colour ; the elytra are 
coriaceous, and each bears three distinct costules. 
Length 15-20 mm. ; width 5-6^ mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Worcester, Paarl, Malmesbury, 
Namaqualand, Beaufort West). 
Mylabris connexa, Mars., 
Plate XXIIL, fig. 32. 
Monogr., p. 505, pi. v., fig. 58. 
Black, somewhat opaque ; head and prothorax very closely scabrose 
punctate, frontal part with a small smooth patch, pubescence black, dense, 
erect; antennae yellow, wdth the two antennal joints black, the inter- 
mediate joints closely set, third plainly longer than the fourth ; elytra very 
closely punctate, the punctures deep but not rugose, the pale straw-like 
colour has invaded the greatest part of the area, leaving however on 
each side along the outer margin a long humeral black band, a median 
and a post-median patch of moderate size, and a small apical sutural 
one ; on the disk are two patches, one anterior and one post-median, a 
small median dot in the centre of the disk, and close to it a very short 
transverse black patch astride the suture, which spot and patch are 
probably coalescing occasionally. 
Length 10-14 mm. ; width 6 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester). 
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