Descrijjtive Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa.. 199 
Mylabeis tincta, Erichs., 
Plate XXIII., fig. 50. 
Wiegm. Arch., 1843, i., p. 256. 
Mars., Monogr., p. 171, pi. v., fig. 61. 
Black, covered on the head and prothorax with a long, dense, thick 
silky flavescent pubescence which is also moderately dense but very short 
on the black parts of the elytra, and somewhat more sparse and inter- 
mixed with a few black hairs on the sub-orange-yellow bands ; antennae 
of the normal Mylabrid shape, and with the four basal joints black, the 
others flavescent red ; head and prothorax covered with very closely set, 
slightly rugose punctures ; the short frontal median ridge is quite distinct, 
and the post-median narrow longitudinal impression quite deep ; the 
elytra are covered with contiguous, somewhat deep punctures with sub- 
rugose walls imparting to them a moderately rough, shagreened appear- 
ance^ the basal dorsal patch is round, or very slightly slanting and free, 
the lateral is elongated, but does not, in my examples, reach beyond the 
length of the dorsal patch, the juxta-median transverse band is narrow, 
but broader towards the suture than towards the outer margin with the 
fore border deeply notched twice and the posterior still more deeply 
incised ; the post-median band is quite similar, and both reach only the 
edge of an outer marginal red band beginning at the apex of the lateral 
elongated patch, and increasing in width below the posterior transverse 
band, greatly enlarged at the apical part and ascending along the suture, 
where it is however not wider than on the anterior part of the outer 
margin. 
Length 13-14^ mm. ; width 5^ mm. 
Hah. Damaraland (Walfish Bay, Svakop Eiver). 
Mylabeis matabele, n. sp., 
Plate XXIIL, figs. 51, 61. 
Black, clothed on the under side with an appressed thick silky 
flavescent pubescence equally dense on the head and prothorax ; elytra 
rufous brown, maculated with fuscous, or with the greatest part of the 
disk fuscous, but the margin and the suture are narrowly reddish brown, 
bands and patches light orange-yellow ; antennge rufescent yellow with 
the two basal joints black, third joint very slightly longer than the fourth; 
head and prothorax very closely and deeply punctate, the punctures 
uneven especially on the sides of the prothorax ; elytra closely coriaceous, 
each with a basal dorsal yellow patch and a very distinct lateral one, an 
ante-median band reaching from the suture to the margin, somewhat 
narrow and with both edges bi-incised, posterior band of nearly equal 
width ; the basal dorsal patch does occasionally emit a spur connecting 
