02 WILLOW BEETLE. 



Willows. It is, perhaps, the commonest ' Longhorn ' 

 throughout the province. The larva burrows in the 

 Willows much like Prionus." 



Miss Glanville, writing from Grahamstown, also noted 

 the Ceroplesis as destructive, whilst in larval con- 

 dition, to fruit-trees, and that the perfect insect had 

 been found dead beneath the bark, having been unable, 

 from some accidental cause, to escape. 



The above notes are appended, in the observations 

 sent accompanying the insects, to the numbers applying 

 to both the above species of Ceroplesis. 



ALPHITOPOLA MACULOSA, Pasc. (Fig. 16.) 

 Alphitopola maculosa, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2, 

 iv. p. 251 ; Fahrs. Ofvers. Kongl. Ak. Forhl. 1872, 

 2, p. 32. 



FIG. 16. Alphitopola maculosa (magnified). 



"Pitchy-brown, pubescent; eyes, labrum, and an- 

 tennae brown ; palpi pale reddish brown ; head and pro- 

 thorax with five narrow stripes ; elytra with rather 

 obscure large tessellated and sometimes nearly confluent 

 white spots ; under surface pure white ; legs pale brown, 

 with a slight whitish pubescence. Length, 5 lines." 

 Pascoe, loc. cit. 



The small " Longhorn " represented in the figure is 

 noted by Miss Glanville as being " injurious to Orange 

 and Naartje trees in Grahamstown Gardens." 



The specimen sent for identification has been kindly 

 compared by Mr. Pascoe with the type of A. maculosa, 

 and is regarded by him as a variety of that species, the 



