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strongly acuminate inwardly ; head and prothorax covered with deep, but 
small, uneven, rugose, contiguous punctures ; elytra elongated, parallel, 
very scabrose on the black background, less so on the yellow, or orange- 
yellow patches or bands, owing to the punctures, which although scabrose, 
are less closely set, on each side are (type) a basal, dorsal, round, moderately 
large or large patch and a lateral, elongated one, two in the anterior part, 
two in the post-median, the lateral being smaller than the juxta-sutural, 
which does not reach quite the suture, and one apical (pi. iii., fig. 77) ; this 
typical form is however the rarest ; in most examples the two ante-median 
and post-median patches coalesce near the middle of the disk and form 
thus two continuous bands strangulated in the centre (pi. iii., fig. 78), or 
these two bands are completely united and their anterior edges are bi- and 
the posterior edges tri- dentate, the apical patch is arcuate as if it consisted 
of two coalesced patches. 
It is not uncommon to meet with examples in which the posterior 
band and patch are red ; occasionally all the patches are red or deep 
orange-red. 
Length 11-17 mm. ; width 3f-6 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester). 
Ceeoctis serricoenis, Gerst., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 79. 
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1854, p. 694; Peter's Eeis. n. Mos., 1862, p. 300, 
pi. 18, fig. 1 ; Mars., Monogr., p. 548, pi. 5, fig. 63. 
This species is so closely allied in general appearance and markings of 
the elytra to C. gyllenhali (large development) that it might easily be 
mistaken for it ; but it differs in the following points : the pectination of 
the antennal joints is not so long ; the claws are black or fuscous instead 
of being yellow; the head and prothorax are slightly roughly punctate 
but not shagreened, and the sculpture of the elytra consists of round, 
simple, moderately deep punctures, instead of a scabrose surface ; the 
basal and lateral round yellow patches are similar in both species, 
but the anterior band is only slightly constricted in the centre, the 
post-median one is plainly separated, forming thus two sub-transverse 
patches separated by a narrow line, the apical patch is transversely 
elongate ovate. 
In the type, apud Gerst., the dorsal round patch is elongated near the 
suture towards the anterior band, and the lateral is continued as a marginal 
band uniting there the two transverse bands. 
Length 18 mm. ; width 6 mm. 
Hah. Mozambique (Rikatla). 
