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margined with purplish-red, the rest hlack, rather thickly varied 

 with short grey hairs ; the lateral margins with two slight plaits ; 

 elytra elongated, narrow, greyish-black, thickly punctured, the punc- 

 tures filled with small grey hairs, which give the elytra the appear- 

 ance of being thickly dotted with whitish ; across them are from 

 seven to eight interrupted narrow purplish-red or pinkish bands, the 

 apex margined with pinkish-red; the niesothorax with a large red- 

 dish patch coming down on each side ; ahdomen beneath with four 

 transverse pinkish bands, one on each posterior margin of the 

 ment ; femora ahove with a longitudinal pinkish vitta and a smaller 

 one beneath ; tibiae with a longish patch of pink. 



Length 15 lines. 



Hab. S. Africa. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Dedicated to Miss Catherine Spooner, of Kentish Town, the ele- 

 gant and amiable artist who drew the Plate on which this insert ie 

 figured. 



Ceratites piperita, n. s. 



C. nigra, albido creberrime punctulata ; thorace transversa m W- 

 catulo : elytris rude punctatis, basi Vitus haud elevatis. 



Purplish-black, the elytra very thickly punctulated with white ; 

 thorax with many transverse furrowed lines, having corresponding 

 ridges ; elytra rather roughly punctured, the base not ridged as in 

 C.jaspidea, nor having like it the portion at the base of the suture 

 somewhat elevated ; under side with many small tufts of greyish 

 hairs, the posterior margin of abdominal segments rather thickly 

 ciliated ; legs rather thickly covered with short cinereous hairs. 



Length 10| lines. 



Hab. S. Africa (Sir Andrew Smith). Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Cerosterna javana, n.s. 



C.ferruyineo-fusca; humeri* excavato-punctatis, punctis post ire 

 subtubercula/is. 



Allied to C.(//adiator, but of a brown approaching to ferruginous, 

 the apex of the joints of the antenna? darker; middle portion of 

 thorax between the spines somewhat wrinkled ; elytra with the 

 shoulder and space about it covered with deep excavated punctures, 

 most of them somewhat tuberculated behind ; elytra in some parts 

 varied with paler patches. 



Length 13 lines. 



Hah. Java. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Ckrosterna plagiata, n. s. 



('. rrrviun-fusca sericea, autruiiarum ftrticuti*, " ttrtio, opirr 

 ni'/ro-fuscis, rerrirr /liz/ro-j/i/nr/afii \ (horace supra p ullid o tri- 

 ritfato ; srutello lateribus palUdis ; efytris singulis basi smb* 

 tubereulatis, plaga magna lateroU subquadrata pallida , hkicu- 

 bisque varus partis pallidis, mm post mediawt, wtajore. 



Silky fawn-Coloured broWU ; the hack part of head with two or 



