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Female. Head and prothorax of the same colour as the male ; the 
elytra are cinnabar red, with the usual broad longitudinal fuscous band, 
and the legs and abdomen are black. 
Length 17-18 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo, Victoria Falls). 
Eletica luteosignata, Fahr., 
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forhandl., 1870, p. 349. 
Black, palps also black except the very apical part of the ultimate one, 
femora black with a longitudinal rufescent line along the upper side, tibiae 
and tarsi rufescent ; elytra with a very broad transverse pale yellow band 
extending from the base to one-third of the length and enclosing a juxta- 
sutural and a supra-lateral black patch, and a second, narrower band, 
situated past the middle, being almost equidistant from the centre and the 
apex ( ) ; or, prothorax with an anterior lateral triangular reddish yellow 
macule ; elytra with a humeral yellow patch continued along the outer 
margin as a narrow border connecting or not with a transverse broad or 
narrow sinuate band reaching the suture at about one-third of the length, 
posterior transverse band broad or narrow sinuate or scooped ; the pectus, 
abdomen, and legs are clothed with a dense, sericeous white pubescence ; 
the head, especially in front, and the anterior part of the prothorax have 
a similar but less dense pubescence, the scutellum is very briefly pubescent, 
and the elytra glabrous. The head, including the vertical part, is closely 
punctate, and the vextex not shiny ; the antennae are shorter than in the 
preceding species, or varieties, and even in the ? barely reach beyond 
the median part of the prothorax, and the joints are very much less 
serrate ; the prothorax is finely and very closely aciculate punctate in the 
anterior part, but with only a few very remote punctures in the posterior 
which is very shiny, in the manner of E. wahlbergi, and the sculpture of 
the strongly coriaceous elytra is the same. 
In the female there is an apical rufo-flavescent band on the meta- 
sternum, and the black femora have a longitudinal streak of the same 
colour. 
That E. luteosignata is not a colour variety of the preceding species is 
plainly shown by the shorter antennae and the less serrate joints, and also 
by the sculpture of the vertical part of the head. I have seen only one 
example. 
Length 15-28 mm. ; width 5-10 mm. 
Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe, Plumtree). 
Eletica stuhlmanni, Kolbe, from the Albert Nyanza region, is a very 
close ally of, if not identical with, Fahroeus' species^ 
