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AcTENODiA viLLOSA, Mars., 
Monogr., p. 625, pi. vi. (iv.), fig. 3. 
Marseul, loc. cit., describes an ActeJiodia which differs from A. amoena 
merely by having all the antennal joints, the basal parts, and the legs 
yellow. The habitat of this species, " Cape of Good Hope," is however 
considered by him as doubtful. I have not met with it. 
Gen. PAEACTENODIA, Pering., 
Ann. South Afric. Mus., iii., 1904, p. 285. 
Characters of Acte?iodia, Casteln., from which it differs in the number 
of antennal joints which is seven instead of eight. 
Paractenodia parva, Pering., 
Plate XXIV., fig. 132. 
Loc, cit., p. 285. 
Black, with the five ultimate joints of the elytra and the tibiae red ; 
covered with a very short, appressed silky 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 ; elytra coarsely shagreened, without any costules, patches and bands 
yellowish red, the anterior elongated band is formed by a longitudinal 
basal patch reaching the median bi-sinuate transverse band which is dis- 
connected from the suture, but continued upwards into a somewhat broad 
band along the outer margin as far as the humeral part where it coalesces 
anew with the basal patch which has invaded all the base, this basal 
Jband reaches the suture in the anterior part only, and the result of the 
amalgamation of this basal patch and band gives to the elytra the appear- 
ance of being yellowish red from the base to the median part, except for 
a narrow strip along part of the suture, and enclosing a humeral, narrow 
black band ; the second band is equidistant from the first and from the 
apex, strongly sinuate and narrowly disconnected from the suture, but not 
from the outer margin. The last joint of the antennae which is nearly 
equal in length to the four preceding ones taken together, is very thick, 
but arcuate as in Coryna. 
Length 4^-5 mm. ; width 2J mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (no exact locality). > " 
