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elytra broad and separated from each other by a narrow Hne-Uke space 
(fig. 40), or the two bands coalesce, leaving only two or more minute 
spots of the colour of the original background (fig. 41) ; the hind edge of 
the posterior band is weakly sinuate. 
Length 19 mm. ; width 7 mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 
Mylabeis matoppoena, 
Plate XXIII., figs. 42, 43, 44. 
Black, shiny ; head and prothorax very closely aciculate ; pubescence 
dense, black, frontal part with a distinct smooth elongated spot ; elytra 
with a basal, dorsal yellow patch and a small lateral dot, or entirely 
w^ithout traces of either, the two somewhat dark yellow bands are broad, 
the anterior is narrower at the outer margin than on the suture, and with 
the hind border either not sinuate or slightly tri-sinuate, posterior band 
either narrowed also towards the outer margin or not, and with the anterior 
border plainly tri-sinuate, the hind one slantingly emarginate near the 
suture, and slightly sinuate near the median part, both the posterior 
borders are narrowly edged with reddish brown. 
This form greatly resembles specimens of M. oculata of moderate size. 
Length 25-27 mm. ; width 8f-9 mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Matoppos). 
Mylabeis peetinax, n. sp., 
Plate XXIII., fig. 47. 
Black, clothed on the upper and under side with a long, greyish 
flavescent silky pubescence nearly as long on the elytra as on the head 
and prothorax ; antennae black, with the five apical joints fuscous and 
faintly flavous ; head and prothorax very faintly aciculate and having a 
plain elongated frontal smooth patch ; prothorax very closely aciculate, 
the punctures very closely set and round; elytra equally shagreened on 
the background and on the yellow bands, each with a long dorsal pale 
yellow band reaching from the base to one-third of the length, a median, 
transverse, bi-dentate one narrowly interrupted near the outer margin 
where there is a triangular part connected with a lateral narrow band 
reaching the base, and a posterior broadly triangular between the 
suture and the median discoidal part, and narrow thence to the outer 
margin, where it expands a little along the edge. Possibly a varietal 
form of M. hilaris. 
Length 10-11 mm. ; width 4 mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls), Natal (Durban). 
