Coleoptera from South Africa. 183 



Gen. Ceeoplesis, Serv. 

 C. manic ana, n, sp. 



Black, the elytra bluish-black, with short pubescence ; head 

 •with two frontal, longitudinal red bands; prothorax constricted at 

 base and apex, tuberculated laterally beyond the median part, sub- 

 tuberculated and rugose on the disk, anterior and posterior 

 constrictions banded with pale vermilion ; elytra elongated, 

 gradually narrowed from the base to the apex, which is rounded, 

 convex, deeply and closely punctured all over, but more deeply 

 in the basal part, which has a brassy tinge, and having two 

 transverse, non-sinuate vermilion-red bands reaching from side to 

 side, one supra-apical one, sinuate laterally, one apical patch, and a 

 supra-marginal dot between the post median and the supra-apical 

 bands ; epipleura3 red from the base to the median part ; underside 

 pubescent, meso- and metasternum each with a lateral red patch. 

 Length 30, width 10 mm. ^ 



Hah. Zambezia (Manica). 



In the (J the elytra are more acuminate behind than 

 in any other South African species known to me. 



G.fallax, n. sp. 



Black, with a very short, greyish pubescence ; frontal part of 

 the head with two longitudinal pale vermilion-red bands and a 

 transverse apical one ; prothorax constricted at base and apex, 

 tuberculated laterally beyond the median part, rugose on the disk, 

 the anterior and posterior constrictions banded with pale vermilion- 

 red; elytra cylindrical, finely and closely punctured, each puncture 

 bearing a very short, greyish hair ; their basal part has no bronze 

 tinge, and they have a sub-humeral pale vermilion-red band 

 reaching neither the outer margin nor the suture on each side, 

 two median ones, moderately broad, reaching the outer margins, 

 another band reaching from the outer margin to the median part 

 of the disk or sometimes to near the suture, a sub-sinuate supra- 

 apical one reaching from side to side and an apical patch coalescing 

 along the margin with the supra-apical band ; epipleurte red from 

 the base to the median part ; underside more densely pubescent 

 than the upper, lateral part of the meso- and metasternum, as 

 well as of the abdominal segments, the last one excepted, red. 

 Length 2(3, width 9 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



