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Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 205 
My M. lacerata seems to differ very little frora the typical M. hasi- 
bicincta, except that the apical yellow band is divided into two. I have 
however identified Marseul's type from the description and figure only, 
and M. Lesne informs me that my M. lacerata is not represented in 
Marseul's collection. 
South African Species which I have not seen, or been able to identify. 
A^, Antennffi black. 
Mylabbis trifolia, Mars., 
Plate XXIII., fig. 60. 
Monogr., p. 461, pi. v., fig. 39. 
Oblong, moderately wide and moderately convex, black, shiny, sparsely 
hairy, hairs black; head sub-quadrate, strongly inflated behind the sinuate, 
globose eyes, and densely punctate, frontal part moderately convex and 
slightly impressed on each side ; antennae slender ; prothorax broad, 
vaguely punctate, the sides roundly dilated, coarctate and suddenly nar- 
rowed in front, reflexed at the base, sub -impressed in the centre ; 
scutellum strigulose, rounded at apex ; elytra vaguely punctulate, sub- 
parallel, marginate, the shoulders raised, rounded at apex, and having on 
each side an ante-median, narrow, sinuate, pale yellow transverse band, 
a basal outer marginal ovate macule, and close to the base another median 
macule ; the posterior band is broader and dilated in the centre of the 
posterior border into a very distinct patch ; this posterior band is 
blood-red. 
Length 20 mm. ; width 7 mm. 
Hab. Kaffraria." 
Marseul places this species after M. lavaterce. 
Mylabris svakopina, Mars., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 66. 
Monogr., p. 477, pi. v., fig. 46. 
Oblong, sub-cylindrical, black, opaque above, hardly pubescent ; head 
and prothorax deeply punctate ; antennae strongly clavate ; elytra sub- 
parallel, closely rugose punctate, and having on each side a dorsal 
sub-basal yellow patch connected near the scutellary region and along 
the suture with a moderately broad transverse ante-median band, and 
an outer marginal narrower band reaching from the base to the said 
