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notched, the inner forcipate process is spatulate, and the outer 
slender. 
The description of JT. longicornis, Burm., agrees very well with 
that of A. enews, except that the elytra have no perceptible striz, 
but they are not perfectly even. 
Length 44-5 mm. ; width 23-3 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 
ABLABEROIDES DITISSIMUS, Nn. spec. 
Body short, massive, convex, but with the elytra not very much 
rounded laterally behind; bronze-black, with the elytra somewhat 
redder and with a strong opaline sheen, head and prothorax some- 
what opaque; antennz with the club slightly infuscate and the 
terminal joints of the pedicel pale flavous, club not longer than 
the pedicel in the male, with the two last joints plainly aculeate, 
the other three are somewhat fused; clypeus plainly tri-dentate in 
front and with the angle of the lateral sinuations often very sharp, 
clypeal keel very plain but not reaching quite the sides, the whole 
surface is very roughly punctate, especially the part comprised 
between the keel and the suture; prothorax very much broader 
than long, plainly ampliated from the anterior part to past the 
median, very convex, closely punctured, sub-opaque and yet 
opaline under certain light, the long lateral hairs are light 
fulvous; scutellum punctate; elytra convex in the anterior part, 
slightly ampliated laterally and having each five very distinct 
strize and another but less plain one in addition, the intervals and 
the sides are coarsely punctate, the subdued sheen is purplish; 
under side as in A. enews; the forcipate clasps of the male 
armature are very short, symmetrical, and in the shape of callipers. 
Length 7-74 mm.; width 5 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Newcastle), Transvaal (Boksburg, Lydenburg), 
Orange River Colony (Bothavyille), Southern Rhodesia (Upper 
Limpopo). 
ABLABEROIDES PAVONINUS, N. spec. 
Black, shining, with the elytra either brown or chestnut-brown and 
a conspicuous iridescent sheen all over, more noticeable, however, 
on the elytra on account of their great convexity; in general 
appearance it differs from A. ditissimus in not being so square 
owing to the elytra being much more rounded laterally behind and 
also more convex on the dorsal part; the pedicel of the antennz 
is rufescent, and the club, which in the male is slightly longer than 
