Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 207 
Mylabeis nativa, Voigts., 
Deutsch. Ent. Zeitsch., 1903, p. 107. 
"Oblong, black, opaque; antennae yellow with the two basal joints 
black, 3rd and 4th of equal size ; palpi black ; flavo maculate underneath ; 
mentum flavescent at apex ; head and prothorax coarsely and densely 
punctate, the punctures denser towards the middle and the sides of the 
former, both are clothed with black hairs, the head has a smooth space 
between the eyes and often a longitudinal more or less raised line ; the 
prothorax is as broad as long, with the sides rounded, and is narrower 
in front, the dorsal part is transversely impressed in the centre and before 
the base and has in addition some more or less distinct, irregular im- 
pressions, from the base to the apex is a longitudinal smooth more or less 
raised line and a median impression slightly sulcate ; elytra deeply and 
densely rugulose punctate, clothed with black villose hairs in the basal 
region, and with black, depressed hairs mixed with greyish ones on the 
rest of the surface, these have each four longitudinal raised lines ; on each 
side are two small rounded flavous sub-equal basal macules, one dorsal, 
the other humeral, and situated between the gibbosity and the lateral 
margin, two transverse fasciae, the one situated before the median part, 
broader towards the suture than towards the margin with the anterior 
border nearly straight, sub-undulate on the posterior, slightly oblique 
from the suture outwardly, the second situated past the middle, is nearly 
twice broader towards the suture than outwardly, moderately abruptly 
narrowed outwardly towards the second raised line, and undulate behind, 
these fasciae are yellow, moderately shiny, nearly glabrous, more finely and 
more sparsely punctate with the punctures brownish, the posterior fascia 
is girded in front, and much more so behind with red with a vague tinge 
of black ; under side punctulate, clothed with a black villosity ; anterior 
femora and tibiae with the inner part pilose, the hairs golden fulvous ; 
posterior tarsi with the first joint red at the base ; spurs of the hind tibiae 
equal, red, flavous at apex. 
Length 33 mm. 
Hab. Natal." 
This species would seem to approximate the large examples of 
M. oczdata, var. vulgaris. 
Gen. CEEOCTIS, Mars., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 67. 
Monogr. Abeille, vol. vii., 1870, p. 9. 
The genus differs from Mylabris in the shape of the antennal joints 
which are strongly serrate inwardly, and even flabellate in the ^ . All the 
species are African. 
