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A3, Antennae somewhat long, reaching beyond the shoulders, joints 
not compressed, ultimate one acuminate as in Mylabris. 
Under side, legs, head, and prothorax bright green ; elytra pale 
flavescent, glabrous ; head and prothorax very closely punctate, 
the latter with a neck lucida. 
Under side and legs blue-black ; elytra fiavous or flavo-rufous, 
glabrous ; head and prothorax deeply punctate, no neck . . . . palUdipennis. 
A^. Antennae not reaching beyond the shoulders. 
Under side, legs, head, and prothorax bright golden-green ; elytra 
rufo-flavescent, glabrous nitidula. 
k}. Antennae not reaching the shoulders. 
Under side, legs, head, and prothorax green ; elytra pale fiavous 
with a median dorsal longitudinal blue band ; head and prothorax 
deeply and closely punctulate ; elytra pale fiavous, glabrous . . semilineata. 
Cantharis ovampoa, Pering., 
Ann. S. Afric. Mus., L, 1899, p. 319. 
Var. C. damarina, Per., loc. cit. iii., 1904, p. 286. 
Closely resembling C. lorigera in shape and vestiture, but easily 
differentiated by the normal shape of the mandibles, and the much less 
filiform antennae. Fuscous black, with the elytra chocolate-brown ; head 
rufescent with a transverse, fuscous patch filling the greatest part of the 
frontal part and leaving above the epistome three reddish triangularly 
disposed patches ; the three basal joints of the antennae are rufescent ; 
head closely punctulate, the punctures somewhat rugose, covered in part 
with a brief greyish pubescence more noticeable on the epistome and 
labrum, and along the median part of the vertex ; prothorax narrowed 
anteriorly for about one-third of the length, closely, almost contiguously 
punctate, clothed with a very short, erect black pubescence, broadly mar- 
ginated with greyish or greyish flavescent on the sides, narrowly so along 
the base, and having in the centre a conspicuous greyish or greyish flaves- 
cent longitudinal band reaching from base to apex ; scutellum pubescent ; 
elytra elongated, sub-cylindrical, finely and contiguously aciculate and 
having no traces of costules ; on each side of the scutellum is a short 
transverse, ill-defined greyish band, the outer margin from the base to 
the apex of the rounded posterior part has a narrow greyish band, there 
is a similar one along the suture, and in the median part of the disk is 
another extending however in the central part only (damarina) and 
occasionally disappearing altogether {ovampoa). 
In some examples of this species the claws are not plainly cleft. 
Length 12J-17^ mm. ; width 4:J-5| mm. 
Hah. Ovampoland ; Northern Damaraland. 
