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outer margin to the suture, and its hind border is very deeply bi- sinuate, 
posterior band of the same width, moderately deeply emarginate in the 
centre of the anterior border, and moderately arcuate in the posterior. 
Length 14 mm. ; width 5f mm. 
Hab. Ehodesia, Feira ; Zambesi River ; Victoria Falls. 
Mylabeis burmeisteei, BertoL, 
Plate XXIII., figs. 54, 55. 
Nov. Comm. Ac. Bon., x., 1849, p. 420, pi. 9, fig. 8; Mars., Monogr., p. 437, 
pi. iv., fig. 24. 
Black, with the upper side, the head, prothorax, and scutellum thickly 
clothed with a greyish flavescent pubescence, elytra covered with a 
similar pubescence, but so arranged in well-preserved examples that the 
sculpture shows as distinct fossulate punctures ; antennae rufescent yellow 
with the two basal joints black, the third of nearly equal length with the 
fourth ; head and prothorax deeply pitted ; elytra each with a basal dorsal, 
sub-juxtasutural yellow patch, a supra-humeral, sub-basal elongated one, 
the apex of which is very close to if not connected with two small patches 
disposed diagonally from the median part towards the suture, and as often 
as not having coalesced so as to form a diagonal band, the basal lateral 
patch is continued as a narrow band from the humeral angle to, but not 
connected with, a transverse post-median band, occasionally narrowly 
interrupted in the centre, and reaching from the suture to the outer 
margin, where it is prolonged backwards as a narrow band stopping short 
of the rounded part of the apex. 
Very distinct from all the other South African species owing to its 
livery and the disposition of the yellow bands. 
Length ll-J mm, ; width 15 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Douglas) ; Transvaal (Rustenburg). 
Mylabris sedecimguttata, Thunb., 
Plate XXIII., fig. 57. 
Diss. Nov. Insect. Sp., vi., p. 115, fig. 20; Billb., Monogr., p. 42, pi. 5, 
fig. 1 ; Mars., Monogr., p. 479, pi. v., fig. 47. 
Black, moderately shiny, densely but briefly pubescent, the pubescence 
black, not shiny ; antennae black, the third joint one-third longer than the 
fourth ; head and prothorax very closely punctured, the former is without 
any frontal smooth spot or line, the latter is one-fourth broader than long, 
ampliate rounded laterally in the anterior part, and truncate in front, the 
central and basal impressions are distinct, but there are no traces of a 
longitudinal smooth or raised line ; elytra somewhat short and massive, 
