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laterally and slightly ampliated in the posterior part, singly rounded at 
apex but not divaricating, and having on each, in the dorsal part, three 
plain costules and another less well-defined running parallel with the 
somewhat deplanate outer margin for the greater part of the length ; they 
are coriaceous shagreened, and the appressed pubescence hides the back- 
ground except the black spots which are glabrous ; antennae black, short, 
barely reaching the humeral part, joints 4-10, in the shape of a broadly 
truncate cone, or nearly as broad as long. 
Length 14 mm. ; width 5|- mm. 
Hah. Transvaal (Waterberg). 
Cantharis elegantula, n. sp. 
Black, with the thorax flavescent and bearing a small fuscous patch in 
the centre of the disk, and a small fuscous dot equi-distant from the centre 
and the base on each side, elytra fulvous flavescent, femora except the 
knees flavous ; head, under side and legs clothed with a short appressed 
silky whitish pubescence, this pubescence on the elytra is extremely short ; 
head finely and very closely aciculate, antennae reaching slightly beyond 
the humeral part, joints 3-10 triangular, apical one somewhat swollen in 
the centre ; prothorax weakly and remotely aciculate punctate, gradually 
ampliate laterally, but broader by one-third at the base than at the apex, 
deeply grooved in the centre from end to end and with a narrow, broadly 
triangular impression along the base, and a deeper transverse one in the 
anterior part ; scutellum weakly grooved in the centre, and sub-pilose ; 
elytra elongated, the apices not singly rounded at apex, minutely punc- 
tulate, sub-coriaceous, each puncture bearing a diminutive hair ; under 
side closely aciculate : the three median joints of the tarsi of the fore and 
intermediate legs are triangular, the inner part of the basal joint of the 
posterior ones is produced into a very plain spine ( ). 
Length 10 mm. ; width 3 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam). 
Canthaeis enona, Pering., 
Ann. S. Afric. Mus., vol. i., 1899, p. 318. 
Black, clothed with an appressed greyish flavescent pubescence, frontal 
part with a flavescent patch on each side, elytra with the suture, two 
dorsal yellow bands on each side, and the outer margin flavous ; antennae 
short, barely reaching the humeral part, joints, with the exception of the 
three basal ones, sub-conical, or nearly as broad as long ; head scrobiculate 
punctate in the frontal part, and fossulate on the vertex, the punctures 
contiguous, in the centre a short, impressed longitudinal line ; prothorax 
