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ADDITIONS. 
Mylabeis amplectens, Gerst., 
Arch. f. Naturgesch., vol. 37 ; Decken's Eeis. Gliederth., 1873, p. 207, 
pi. X., fig. 9. 
Black, the elytra very dark chestnut brown, with the humeral part and 
the edge of the suture chestnut or rufous brown ; whole body covered 
with a silky flavescent dense pubescence, appressed and somewhat shorter 
on the elytra ; antennae bright yellow with the four basal joints distinctly 
piceous black. Head irregularly but very slightly impressed, and very 
closely punctulate, the punctures smooth ; prothorax more than usually 
narrowed in front, very closely but somewhat irregularly punctate, the 
pubescence long, the intermixed black hairs more or less erect ; scutellum 
punctate, densely pubescent at the base ; elytra elongated, finely reticu- 
late, sub-shagreened, median dorsal costate more evident than the others ; 
in the base is a broad arcuate dorsal lunule beginning at the suture, and 
broadly joined under the shoulder with a lateral marginal band ; slightly 
above the median part is a very narrow transverse yellow band reaching 
from side to side, slightly wider at the outer margin than at the suture, 
and a post-median of the same colour, and of nearly equal width, but with 
the two edges slightly bi-sinuate : claws rufescent. 
Easily distinguished from the other South African species with the 
four basal joints of antennae black, by the two narrow posterior bands 
of the elytra and the connection of the basal dorsal patch with the 
lateral. 
Length 13 mm. ; width 4^ mm. 
Hah. Mozambique. 
This species occurs in British and German East Africa. In the type 
the antennae have the three basal joints only black, and my examples 
from Amani are like that, whereas in my Mozambique example the four 
basal joints are of that colour. 
DESCEIPTION OF TWO LAEV^. 
I have met with two larvae of Meloidse which differ so much in several 
characters, and one of them in mode of life, from what is hitherto known, 
that their description may prove of interest, although their identity cannot 
be ascertained. 
