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thorax is closely aciculate in the anterior attenuate part and very briefly 
pubescent there, but the remainder is shiny glabrous, and very sparingly 
punctulate ; the elytra are coriaceous with the four basal costules strongly 
carinate. 
Female. Black, with the elytra more or less broadly marginate with 
cinnabar red, the colour of the head and prothorax is as in the male, but 
the lateral yellow patch of the latter is broader, and the punctures are 
more closely set in the posterior part than in the male, and sometimes less 
shiny. 
Length 18-21 mm. ; width 6J-7 mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Matoppos, Salisbury, Enkeldoorn, Plumtree, 
Sebakwe). 
Var. MOERENS, Pering., 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1888, p. 137. 
Totally black in both sexes with the exception of the palps, and the 
apical part of the labrum. This is plainly the melanic variety of E. ivahl- 
hergi. The habitat is also the same. 
Length 13^ mm. ; width 20 mm. 
Hah. Transvaal (Eustenburg) ; Southern Ehodesia (Mazoe, Bulawayo, 
Salisbury). 
Var. NiGEiCEPS, Pering., 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1888, p. 136. 
Male. Similar in shape and sculpture to E. ivahlhergi, but differs in 
the colouring. Black, with the palps, labrum, a plain lateral prothoracic 
patch, the whole abdomen and the legs flavous. 
Female unknown with certainty, but I suspect it to have black legs 
and cinnabar red elytra with a more or less wide black longitudinal band. 
Length 17-19 mm. ; width 6-6f mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls; Bulawayo). 
Var. CARDiNALis, Pering., 
Plate XXII., figs. 5, ^a. 
Trans. S. Afric Phil. Soc, iv., 1888, p. 135. 
Male. Pectus, antennae, anterior part of the front black, vertex red or 
yellow ; prothorax red or yellow, with a quadrate central black patch in 
the anterior part, and continued thence as a narrow band to the base ; 
elytra yellow or cinnabar red from the base to past the median part, and 
black thence to the apex ; abdominal segments yellow, legs yellow or red. 
This variety or species differs from E. loahlhergi, in having the anterior 
part of the prothorax less finely aciculate, but the difference is very slight, 
