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AcTENODiA JucuNDA, Erichs., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 130. 
Wiegm. Arch., i., 1843, p. 257. 
Black, clothed with a very deose, partly appressed flavescent, silky 
pubescence ; legs rufo-fiavescent with the knees infuscated and the tarsi 
black ; labrum rufescent ; antennae black ; prothorax very elongated, one- 
third longer than broad, and much attenuated in front, both the head and 
prothorax are very closely punctulate, the punctures small, but deep and 
rugose ; elytra punctate shagreened and with some erect hairs in addition 
to the sub-appressed flavescent pubescence, the patches are pale yellow 
and disposed as follows : four sub-median dorsal ones, somewhat ovate, 
the fourth situated at about four-fifths of the length, three lateral marginal, 
sub-triangular ones set opposite the corresponding dorsal ones, but all 
connected along the margin by a narrow pale flavescent band running 
from the humeral basal part to the rounded part of the suture and wider 
in the apical part than along the lateral margin. I have seen examples 
in which the legs are totally black. 
Length 7-8 mm. ; width 2|~2f mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe), Ovampoland. 
ACTENODIA AMOENA, MarS., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 131. 
Monogr., p. 621, pi. vi., fig. 1. 
Black, clothed with a short, silky flavescent pubescence ; tibiae 
rufescent ; antennae black ; head and prothorax very closely, and some- 
what roughly punctate, the punctures small and confluent ; prothorax 
elongated, one-third longer than broad, much attenuated in front ; elytra 
plainly shagreened, with the patches orange-yellow and disposed as 
follows : three juxta-sutural somewhat ovate rounded ones, the first basal 
and more elongated than the other two, the second median, the third post- 
median, along the outer margin is a humeral elongated patch dis- 
connected from the second and the third which are prolonged along the 
margin and situated slightly above the opposite dorsal ones ; the posterior 
however is continued along the margin right to the suture, thus forming 
in the apical part a plain, moderately narrow band. In this species the 
apical antennal joint is much more elongated and much less club-shaped 
than in the other South African species known to me. 
Length 8 mm. ; width 3 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 
