CEBOPLESIS HOTTENTOTTA. 81 



CEBOPLESIS HOTTENTOTTA, Fab. (Fig. 15.) 



Lamia, hottentotta, Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 173 ; Oliv. Ent. iv. 



67, p. 90, t. 4, f. 27. 

 Cerambyx lanius, Voet, Cat. ii. p. 13, t. 11, f. 45. 



FIG. 15. Ceroplesis hottentotta. 



This species is very similar to C. bicincta, but is 

 usually smaller, narrower, and of a duller colour, the 

 red bands on the elytra are rather broader and less 

 clearly defined, and the second one never extends more 

 than half-way across each of the elytra, on the outer 

 side, and is sometimes only represented by a small 

 marginal spot. The tubercles in which the antennae are 

 inserted are less prominent and wider apart, and the 

 thorax is more coarsely and sparsely punctured. As in 

 the preceding species, the red tomentose clothing varies 

 in different individuals; in some, apparently freshly- 

 emerged specimens, it is present on the legs, as well as 

 the head, thorax, base of the elytra, and under side. 

 The length of the body is 17 23 millm. 0. E. J. 



Mr. Bairstow, writing from Port Elizabeth, observed : 

 " The Ceroplesis is very injurious, and the great 

 scourge of our Willows ; it is in hundreds up the garden- 

 drive to Emerald Hill, on either side of which are 



