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sides ; scutellum black, its apex truncate, elytra rather deeply 
punctate-striate, the punctures of transverse shape, the interstices 
also sparingly and minutely punctured, convex at the sides, pale 
fulvous, the extreme sutural, apical, and lateral margins posteriorly, 
and a longitudinal short band at the shoulder extending below the 
middle but not to the lateral margins, black ; underside and 
pygidium black, closely covered with silvery pubescence, base of 
the tibiae fulvous. 
Hah. Natal,, Cape Town Museum ; a single specimen. 
The entirely black and pubescent liead and the narrow 
abbreviated lateral elytral stripes well distinguish thi? 
species. 
CryptocephaliLS angiisto-fasciatus, sp. n. 
Obscurely fulvous ; thorax with two basal black spots, the anterior 
and lateral margins flavous; elytra strongly punctate-striate, fiavous, 
a transverse band at the base and another near the apex, black. 
Length, 2 lines. 
Head with central groove, the vertex black, the rest fulvous, 
distinctly punctured near the eyes, ciypeus and labrum flavous; the 
antennae rather short, the lower six joints flavous, the others black ; 
thorax much widened at the middle, the sides rounded, the surface 
extremely minutely and sparingly punctured, reddish-fulvous, this 
colour in the shape of a broad medially-widened transverse band 
which occupies nearly the entire disc, leaving the anterior margin 
narrowly, and the sides more widely, flavous, the posterior margin 
very narrowly black, with a small black spot at each side near the 
scutellum, the latter black, its apex broadly truncate ; the elytra 
regularly punctate-striate, the interstices impunctate, slightly 
convex at the sides, bright yellow, the base with a narrow trans- 
verse black band, slightly widened at the outer ends, the lower 
margin of which is irregularly notched ; a similar band, curving 
round near the suture, is placed near the apex, which remains 
flavous in shape of a rounded patch ; underside and legs dark 
fulvous, tibiae and tarsi rather paler, prosternum flavous, deeply 
bi-lobed, pygidium fulvous, clothed with greyish hairs like the rest 
of the undersurface. 
Sal). Natal, Cape Town Museum ; a single specimen. 
Distinguished from other transversely-banded species 
by the colour and pattern of the thorax and the narrow 
shape of the elytral bands, the posterior one of which is 
placed close to the apex, and extends entirely to the 
lateral margin, the anterior one not reaching quite to the 
