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Length 10-11 mm. ; width 3 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand, in the flowers of the numerous 
Mesembryanthemums ; Hopetown). 
Cantharis mashuna, Paring., 
Ann. S. Afric. Mus., i., 1899, p. 318. 
Black, with the elytra light tawny flavescent, and having on each side a 
very broad fuscous band beginning near the basal part and reaching slightly 
past the median part, but not quite reaching the suture or the outer 
margin, and a post-median narrower yet broad band somewhat connected 
near the suture with the anterior band ; both the upper and under sides 
are clothed with a very short yet dense sub-flavescent pubescence, not 
thick enough however to hide the teguments ; head closely and finely 
aciculate punctate, the punctures somewhat closely set; antennae short, 
and probably hardly reaching the shoulders — the antennae of the only 
example I saw are mutilated, there being only 8 joints left, but the missing 
ones could not have been much elongated — joints 5 to 8 in the shape of an 
upturned transverse cone the base of which would be equal to the length ; 
prothorax almost twice as long as broad, moderately narrowed in the 
anterior part for about one-fourth of the length, very plainly grooved in 
the median part and without any basal median impression, very closely 
aciculate punctate ; elytra very closely aciculate and having on each side 
faint traces of two costules in the anterior part only ; under side very 
closely aciculate ; legs and tarsi very densely pubescent. 
Length 9 mm. ; width 3 mm. 
Hah. Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn). 
Cantharis spilotella, Pering., 
Ann. S. Afric. Mus., in., 1904, p. 286. 
Fuscous black, with the frontal part of the head, a broad discoidal patch 
on the prothorax, a large patch on the metasternum, and the femora and 
tibia, with the exception of the apices which are infuscate, reddish with a 
fleshy tinge ; elytra testaceous and sprinkled all over with irregular black 
spots ; the whole body is covered with an appressed greyish white pubes- 
cence ; head foveate-punctate, the palpi, labrum and epistome are black, 
and there is a frontal median black stripe reaching to about half the 
length of the frontal part showing a longitudinal raised area in relief ; 
prothorax slightly longer than broad, strongly attenuate in the anterior 
part for about one-half of the length, grooved longitudinally from the base 
which is not impressed, to a short distance from the apex, irregularly and 
deeply punctate, and having on each side a smooth, median areolet, and 
another one somewhat less defined near the base ; elytra elongated, sinuate 
