Descriptive Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 219 
Ceroctis teifurca, Gerst., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 88. 
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1854, p. 694; Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 298; 
Mars., Monogr., p. 204, pi. v., fig. 74. 
ruficrios, Gerst., loc. cit., p. 695; Peter's Eeis., p. 301. 
Elongated, parallel, black, covered with a fine, appressed sub-flavescent 
silky pubescence; antennae black, intermediate joints almost flabellate : 
head and prothorax very closely punctate, the punctures slightly rugose ; 
elytra aciculate shagreened, the yellow bands and spots deeply punctate, 
each one with a flavous narrow dorsal longitudinal band reaching from the 
base to the median part, or slightly past that point ; at about an equal 
distance from the end of that band and the apex is a round patch, and 
another at the apex itself, along the outer margin runs a similar band 
beginning at the basal part of the shoulder and reaching the middle, and 
at a short distance from it a small patch set opposite to the post-median 
dorsal one and a little less rounded than the latter ; legs black, but 
occasionally flavescent (ruficrus). 
Length lOJ mm. ; width 4 mm. 
Hab. Mozambique (Beira), Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree). Occurs 
also in German East Africa. 
In two examples of C. trifurca, kindly sent me by Professor H. Kolbe, 
compared to the type, the longitudinal dorsal band coalesces with the 
post-median dorsal round spot. 
Ceeoctis exclamationis, Mars., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 89. 
Monogr., p. 563, pi. v., fig. 72. 
Var. bi-vittata, Mars., Monogr., p. 560, pi. v., fig. 71. 
Similar to M. trifurca, Gerst., the sculpture and the vestiture are the 
same, but the elytral dorsal band reaches from the base to four- fifths of 
the length, the round post-median patch being completely absorbed by it, 
and at an equal distance from the end of the dorsal line and of the apex is 
an elongate ovate patch, the lateral marginal band runs from the base of 
the shoulder to somewhat past the median part, and at some distance from 
it is a transverse patch reaching from the margin to a little more than one- 
third of the width. The intermediate joints of the black antennae are as 
strongly serrate flabellate as in M. trifurca, and the elytral bands and 
patches are more orange yellow ; legs black. C. bi-vittata seems to be a 
variety in which the dorsal band coalesces narrowly with the supra-apical 
patch ; and the lateral one is nearly as long as the dorsal. 
Length 11-12 mm. ; width 5 mm. 
Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 
