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Tra7isactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
Length 10-12 mm. ; width 4f-5 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Port Ehzabeth, Grahamstown, East London), the 
whole of Orange Eiver Colony, Natal, and the Transvaal, 
Var. EXTREMA, 
Plate XXIV., fig. 86. 
Same as the type, but the humeral and the three anterior black 
spots are reduced to a mere dot, the median and posterior bands 
reach the suture, and the posterior is occasionally interrupted in the 
centre. 
Length 12-16 mm. ; width 5-5-|- mm. 
Hah. The eastern and northern part of the Cape Colony ; the whole 
of Orange Eiver Colony, Natal, Transvaal. 
Ceeoctis quadrifasciata, Thunb., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 87. 
Dissert. Nov. Insect. Spec, vi., p. 115, fig. 18 ; Billb., Monogr., p. 19, 
pi. ii., figs. 4-8. 
hipunctata, Billb., loc. cit., p. 31, pi. 4, fig. 1; Mars., Monogr., p. 551, 
pi. v., fig. 65. 
Black, clothed with a dense, moderately short black pubescence ; 
antennae black, joints moderately sharply serrate ; head and prothorax 
covered with small, smooth, somewhat shallow contiguous punctures, the 
former with a very distinct frontal line ; elytra with a broad basal pale 
yellow band and two narrower orange-red ones, the black background is 
closely shagreened, the yellow and red bands scrobiculate, and the two 
dorsal costules are strong, the basal yellow band extends from the base to 
two-fifths of the length, and encloses a small dorsal black spot and a sub- 
humeral, small black patch, the hind border of this band is slightly 
scooped laterally, the second band is less than half the width of the 
anterior, and uni-sinuate on each border, the posterior is supra-apical, 
somewhat narrower than the second, and reaches from suture to 
margin. 
Length 14-15 mm. ; width 5J mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 
The figures given by Billberg (loc. cit. supra) do not agree with this 
species, but with varieties of G. gyllenhali, with which, however, 
G. quadrifasciata is so closely allied that it might be considered as 
a variety only were it not for its restricted habitat and its constant 
pattern. 
