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transverse patch connected with the suture and reaching to about the 
median part of the disk, and a similar but sUghtly longer one at a short 
distance from the apex ; on the outer margin are two short patches situated 
each at an equal distance from the basal lunule and the anterior patch and 
from the anterior and posterior ones. 
The dorsal part of the abdomen is pinkish red, and shows conspicuously 
when the insect flies, but in examples from the Northern Transvaal this 
part is black. 
Length 9-14 mm. ; width 3-4 J- mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Ceres, Worcester, 
Malmesbury, Namaqualand, Kimberley, Mossel Bay, Knysna, Grahams- 
town, East London, Somerset West). 
This species is generally found singly or in pairs, and its pattern very 
seldom varies. No varietal form has come to my notice. 
Ceroctis korana, Pering., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 69. 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1888, p. 130, pi. iii., fig. 9. 
Black, clothed with a very short black pubescence, not very dense on 
the head and prothorax which are deeply but somewhat sparsely punc- 
tate, the punctures on the former are however closer on the epistome, and 
the frontal, smooth patch is plain ; on the elytra the pale yellow parts 
are deeply and moderately closely scrobiculate punctate, but the much- 
reduced black background is very deeply and closely punctulate ; the 
anterior part from the base to slightly past the middle is pale yellow with 
the exception of a triangular black patch situated at about one-fourth of 
the length, and the edge of this yellow part is slightly bi-sinuate ; at an 
equal distance from the anterior yellow band and from the apex is a 
moderately broad band extending like the anterior one from side to side, 
and shghtly scooped in the anterior border, the posterior is arcuate. 
Length 12 mm. ; width 4 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Kenhardt). 
Var. KORANELLA, 
Plate XXIV., figs. 70, 71. 
Like the type in sculpture and vestiture, but on the elytra is a 
broad basal pale yellow patch which coalesces with the lateral (fig. 71) 
and even forms with it a broad transverse basal band (fig. 70) ; there is an 
ante-median transverse band reaching from side to side with both the 
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