220 Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
Ceroctis phaleeata, Erichs., 
Plate XXIY., fig. 90. 
Wiegm. Arch., 1843, p. 256; Mars., Monogr., p. 563, pi. v., fig. 73. 
Greatly resembles the two preceding species, but is distinguished by 
the shorter, more appressed sub-flavescent pubescence which is also not 
silky, and is considerably denser on the elytra ; the legs, tarsi and knees 
excepted, are red ; the colour of the bands and patches on the elytra is 
orange yellow, on each elytron the dorsal band reaches from the base to 
three-fourths of the length, and at an equal distance from the end of this 
band and of the apex is a sub-transverse patch, the lateral marginal band 
reaches to two-thirds of the length, and close to it is a short, sub-transverse 
marginal patch. In all my examples the dorsal band reaches nearer to the 
supra-apical spot than in Marseul's figure, loc. cit. 
Length 10^ mm. ; width 4^ mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska), Transvaal (Pretoria, Potchefstroom), 
Orange Eiver Colony (Parys), Damaraland (Okahandja), Ovampoland. 
Gen. MIMESTHES, Mars., 
Plate XXIV., tig. 133. 
Monogr., 1872, p. 207. 
The only species included in this genus differs from Mylabris, 
Ceroctis, Decatoma, Goryna, &c., by the depressed form of the elytra 
which are sub-transversely truncate behind and with the inner angle 
not rounded ; the prothorax is more transverse, and very little attenuated 
in front ; the basal joint of all the tarsi is very long, even in the 
anterior legs where it is as long as the two following taken together. 
The antennae are 11-jointed, but the club consists of three joints so closely 
set, although the sutures are quite distinct, as to resemble nearly that of 
the genus Goryna. 
Mimesthes maculicollis. Mars., 
Plate XXIV., figs. 134, 135, 136. 
Monogr., p. 207, pi. ii., fig. 76. 
Black, covered with a moderately dense, fairly long greyish black 
pubescence, antennae black ; head closely and roughly punctulate ; 
prothorax parallel, almost as broad as long, covered with moderately 
deep, round punctures which are scattered in the anterior part, and are 
more closely set in the posterior ; they have on each side of the anterior 
part a rufescent yellow patch separated from each other by a narrow 
discoidal band ; elytra parallel, depressed, very briefly pubescent, finely 
shagreened on the black background, very closely punctate on the yellow 
