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teguments, and is greyish flavescent ; the vertical part of the head is 
somewhat more densely pubescent than the anterior. The fore tarsi of 
the male are as in the preceding species. 
Length 14-16 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Vaal Eiver) ; Transvaal ; Bechuanaland (Kenya, 
Eamoutsa) ; Natal (Maritzburg). 
Cantharis velata, Gerst., 
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1854, p. 695; Peter's Eeis. n. Moss., 1362, p. 296. 
Black, clothed with a dense grey pubescence hiding the integuments 
and turning sometimes to greyish flavescent ; antennaa somewhat short, 
black with the three basal joints rufous, intermediate joints compressed 
and broad, slightly wider than long ; palps sub-rufescent ; head and pro- 
thorax very closely aciculate, the former with a plain median line, the 
latter also with a median longitudinal line and no basal depression, slightly 
longer than broad, and narrowed towards the apex only ; elytra as closely 
aciculate as the prothorax, without costules, and moderately divari- 
cating singly at apex. 
Length 12-16 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 
Hah. Natal (Maritzburg, Durban, Eshowe) ; Transvaal (Pietersburg, 
Pretoria); Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo) ; Mozambique (Feira). Eanges 
from Natal to Southern Somaliland. 
Cantharis brevipennis, Haag., 
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1880, p. 69. 
mutillata, Haag., loc. cit., p. 690. 
clesignata, Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, p. 135. 
Var. alholiiieata, Paring., loc. cit., iv., 1888, p. 140 (nam. preoc). 
Type : In shape, sculpture and vestiture this species is almost like 
G. velata ; it is black, and likewise thickly clothed with very dense greyish 
hairs ; but the head is red with a very large fuscous patch invading almost 
the whole surface except for a narrow transverse band on the vertex and a 
very faint patch above the epistome ; the three basal joints of the antennas 
are weakly rufescent ; the elytra are strongly divaricating at apex. 
This type form seems to be restricted to certain parts of the Cape 
Colony (Enon, Grahamstown). 
Var. C. designata, Pering., differs from the type form in the black 
patch of the head being restricted to the central frontal part only, and in 
the elytra having on each side a whitish grey discoidal line reaching in 
most cases from base to apex. In the type form the pubescence is 
greyish fuscous, and does not hide the integuments, the dorsal elytral 
