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the base, finely shagreened, bi-costulate on each side in the dorsal 

 part, clothed with an appressed, brief, slightly flavescent pubescence, 

 pale-, somewhat straw-coloured yellow \vith a redder or fulvous outer 

 margin, and having on each side a narrow humeral longitudinal 

 black band, two series of three equi-distant spots or patches disposed 

 diagonally from the suture to the outer margin, and a supra-apical 

 band diagonal patch consisting evidently of two agglomerated 

 patches the lower part of which reaches the outer margin and is 

 continued as a narrow band along the apical edge ; in the two 

 diagonal rows of patches the one near the suture is the smallest, and 

 the third one near the margin the broadest, but both are equi-distant 

 from suture or outer margin. 



Easily recognised by the colour of the antennae. In general 

 colouring this species is not unlike M. groendali, Billb., which is, 

 however, a Ceroctis. 



Length 9^-10 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District), Pretoria Museum ; (Zout- 

 pansberg), A. J. T. Janse. 



PARACTENODIA, n. gen. 



Characters of Actcnodia, Casteln., from which it differs in the 

 number of antennal joints, which is seven instead of eight. 



PARACTENODIA PARVA, n. sp. 



Black, with the nine ultimate joints of the antennae and the tibiae 

 red ; the elytra have in the anterior part an elongate yellowish-red 

 patch extending from the base to the median part, and enclosing a 

 longitudinal black band, and a transverse sinuate post-median band 

 of the same colour, it is covered with a very short, appressed, silky, 

 tiavescent pubescence ; head deeply and closely punctate and with a 

 faint, smooth, longitudinal area in the middle of the frontal part ; 

 prothorax only moderately narrowed laterally in the anterior part, 

 as broad as long, scrobiculate-punctate with the punctures very 

 closely set, and plainly impressed longitudinally in the posterior 

 part ; scutellum black ; elytra slightly sinuate laterally and slightly 

 ampliate towards the posterior, coarsely shagreened, without any 

 costules, the anterior elongated patch is formed by a longitudinal 

 basal patch reaching the median bi-sinuate transverse band, which 

 is disconnected from the suture, but continued upwards into a some- 

 what broad band along the outer margin as far as the humeral part, 

 where it coalesces anew with the basal patch which has invaded all 



