198 
Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
Mylabeis hilaris, Per., 
Plate XXIII., figs. 45, 46. 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vi., 1892, p. 63. 
Size, colour, sculpture and pubescence similar to that of M. pertinax 
and M. villosa, the dorsal very pale yellow band reaches also to one-third 
of the length, but it occasionally coalesces with the anterior transverse 
band, this band being connected laterally with a narrow yellow marginal 
one reaching the base, the anterior edge of the transverse band is deeply 
emarginate in the centre, the posterior is plainly bi-incised there, and 
reaches also the outer margin, expanding there alongside of it so as to 
be slightly connected there with the anterior ; it is slightly slanting from 
the suture, the fore border is sinuate near the suture and incised in the 
centre, the hind border is bi-incised. When the dorsal longitudinal band 
meets the anterior transverse one, there is a small dot of the background 
still left visible. 
Length 10^-12 mm. 
Hab. Ovampoland. 
Mylabris holosericea, Klug, 
Plate XXIII., fig. 48. 
Erm. Eeis., 1835, p. 31 ; Mars., Monogr., p. 142, pi. v., fig. 56. 
villosa, Fahr., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forhdl, 1870, p. 345. 
Black, clothed on the upper and under sides with a dense silky 
flavescent pubescence ; antennas black fuscous, but with the five apical 
joints slightly fiavous ; head and prothorax closely aciculate ; elytra 
elongated, narrow, each with a narrow pale yellow marginal band reaching 
from the basal part of the shoulder to a very short distance from the 
apex, in the anterior part is a longitudinal dorsal band reaching to about 
one-third of the length, the anterior transverse band is reduced to a trans- 
verse patch broadly separated from the outer margin, the posterior band 
is moderately broad, sub-transverse from the suture to the median 
dorsal part and narrowed thence to the outer margin in which it 
merges ; on the rounded part of the apex extends a transverse yellow 
patch narrowly divided from the suture and the posterior and lateral 
margins. 
Length 12 mm. ; width 4 mm. 
Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 
Occurs also in Senegambia. 
