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A^ Elytra with two longitudinal series of yellow patches, apical margin 
yellow. 
Elytra each with four round pale yellow patches disposed longitudi- 
nally in the dorsal part, and three lateral supra-marginal ones 
connected with the yellow margin which runs from the base to the 
apex, and is broader there than laterally (pi. xxiv., fig. 130) . . . . jucunda. 
Elytra with three orange-red dorsal patches, a humeral and two 
lateral ones, the outer margin is broadly orange-red from past the 
middle where it is connected with the second lateral patch, to the 
rounded apex (pi. xxiv., fig. 131) amoena. 
ACTENODIA DECEMGUTTATA, Thunb., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 126. 
Nov. Spec. Ins., vi., 1791, p. 234, pi. xi., fig. 13; Billb., Mon., pp. 45, 81, 
pi. 5, fig. 5. 
guttata, Cast., Hist. Nat. Ins., ii., 1840, p. 268, fig. 192. 
Black, clothed with a dense, black pubescence also very long on the 
elytra, but appressed there ; head and prothorax covered with deep, closely 
set punctures, confluent, and with raised walls on the prothorax ; antennae 
entirely back ; elytra coriaceous shagreened with the costules indistinct, 
the bands and patches are pale yellow and disposed as follows : a basal 
dorsal ovate patch, and a lateral marginal elongated one, a sub-median 
juxta-sutural ovate patch, and opposite a triangular marginal one reaching 
very close to it, a post-median band consisting plainly of two more or 
less ovate patches broadly connected at each end. 
Length 9^ mm. ; width 4^ mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, George). 
AcTENODiA CURTULA, Fahr., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 127. 
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1870, p. 349. 
rufonigra, Mars., Mon., p. 628, pi. 6, fig. 5. 
Shape and size of A. decemguttata, from which it differs in the less deeply 
punctate prothorax, and with the intervals of the punctures plane instead 
of being produced into a raised wall ; the black pubescence is also much 
shorter on the upper side ; all the antennae joints are totally black ; the 
patches and bands of the elytra are orange-yellow ; in the type form the 
basal dorsal and lateral marginal patches are small and clearly defined, 
the ante-median band is complete with each border deeply bi-sinuate, the 
post-median band is broader from the suture to about the median part 
