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remain even in tlie same subfamily. Tliere are, however, in 

 my opinion cases, as in this, in which a character becomes 

 almost purelj arbitrary : in the species before us the ex- 

 ceptional characters are sufficiently recognized by generic 

 distinction *. 



Ceroplesis siimptuosa. 



C. oblonga, nif^a, supra pube tenuissima alba parce adspersa, infra 

 nitida, pilis brevibus volitantibus induta ; capite inter oculos pro- 

 funde sulcato, tuberibus antenniferis alte elevatis ; antennis ( c? ) 

 corpore sesquilongioribus, ( $ ) parum lonf^oribus ; prothoraco 

 transverse tumido, utrinque in mare subbitubcrculato, punctis 

 paucis irregnlariter adsperso, toraento brunneo-miniato dens© 

 tecto ; 8cut<^llo valde transverso, postice rotundato ; elytris pro- 

 thorace plus triplo longioribus, bronzino-nigris, basi rugoso- 

 punctatis, postice punctis sensim minoribus et minus confertis, 

 fasciis duabus determinatis integris invicem atque a basi a?qualiter 

 distantibus, margineque apicali roseo-miniatis ornatis ; tibiis an- 

 ticis ( cJ ) longiusculis, apice parum arcuatis. Long. 14-15 lin. 



Hob. Cape (Grahamstown). 



From C. tricincta, 01., the nearest ally, this handsome 

 species differs in the diverging antennary tubers, the trans- 

 verse bulging of the middle of the prothorax, which is covered 

 with a dense maroon or claret-coloured tomentum, the glossy 

 bronze (almost golden) hue of the elytra, except the pinkish 

 or dark rosy bands, and the anterior tibias of the males longer 

 and less curved. C. marginalisj Fahr., seems to me scarcely 

 distinguishable from C. ferrugator, Fab. I have recently 

 received C. hicincta from Angola, hitherto only recorded from 

 the Cape. 



Ceroplesis aiilica. 



C. nigra, subtus prothoraceque sparse griseo-pubescentibus ; capite 

 piHs griseis sparsis induto, tuberibus antenniferis divergentibus, 



* The Munich Catalogue erroneously makes I7it/sia tricincta, Cast., 

 ejmonymous with T. Wal/ichii, Hope. The errors in this most useful 

 and extensive work ( it already reaches to 3478 pages ) seem to be fewer 

 than could reasonably have been anticipated ; but the authors in some 

 cases seem to have wilfully gone out of their way to create mistakes, as, 

 for instance, in refemng Pascoea Idte to Tmesisternus mirabilis, Anthores 

 leuconoia to Monohammus aspentia, &c. The great defect of the work is 

 the restoration of names that have been dropped in consequence of their 

 being preoccupied elsewhere. Dr. Gemminger and the Baron de Harold 

 have adopted a very narrow rule. So long as names have not been used 

 for a Coleopterous genus, it matters not that they have been used in other 

 orders of insects ; but on this principle, carrying it a step farther, the 

 specialist in Carabidse, for example, would be justified m taking the 

 names of any other family of Coleoptera, and the same generic name 

 might be used in every family of the animal kingdom. 



