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Body black ; elytra black, with two broad transverse yellow patches, 
a basal one enclosing two large black patches and a post-median 
simple one luteosignata. 
Eletica posticalis, paring., 
- Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1888, p. 135. 
Male. Antennae and anterior part of the frons, black; prothorax black, 
with a lateral rufescent yellow macule ; elytra with the half anterior part 
yellow and the posterior black ; labrum, legs and abdomen yellow, the 
former with the knees narrowly infuscate ; under side and legs, and also 
the anterior part of the head, clothed with a sericeous grey pubescence, 
elytra glabrous ; anterior part of the head deeply and closely punctate, 
the punctures rugose, vertex deeply canaliculated and sparingly punctate ; / 
prothorax with a deep, median grooved line, faintly impressed on each 
side of the disk, covered with closely set, sub-rugulose punctures from 
apex to base ; scutellum aciculate ; elytra elongated, broader at base than 
at apex, sinuate laterally at about the median part, very strongly coria- 
ceous, and having on each side two costules which are carinate on the 
anterior part, where in addition are two short, intervening ones ; upper 
part of anterior claws bent almost at right angles at the base. 
Female. Body black, but the palps, epistoriie, and labrum and the 
sides of the head and the vertex are flavous ; the lateral macule of the 
prothorax is less conspicuous than in the male ; the elytra are fuscous 
black with a narrow border of cinnabar red ; the head and prothorax are, 
if anything, slightly more closely punctate all over than in the male ; the 
two costules on each elytron are less carinate in the anterior part and 
the intervening costules are not more distinctly raised than the other two ; 
the sculpture is the same as in the male. 
Var. a. Male. Totally black, with only the palps, the labrum and 
epistoma, and the apex of the head flavous. 
Length 19-22 mm. ; width 6^-7 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Southern Ehodesia (Enkeldoorn). 
Eletica wahlbekgi, Fahr. ( j ). 
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forhandl., 1870, p. 350. 
E. verticalis, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 351 {S)- 
Male. Black, with the palps, the labrum and epistome, the vertex of 
the head, and a small lateral patch on the prothorax yellow ; this lateral 
patch is occasionally wanting ; the under side and legs are clothed with a 
dense appressed silky greyish pubescence, but the head is almost glabrous, 
the depressed anterior part of the frons is aciculate punctate, but the 
whole of the vertex is very sparingly punctulate and shiny ; the pro- 
