64 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou, xm. 
A most variable species, not only in colouring, but also in the 
general appearance, which is either sub-parallel or more or less 
convex; the female is, however, less parallel than the male. 
ABLABEROIDES RUFOVITTATUS, Péring., 
Trans. 8. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 33. 
The description of A. crassus applies in its entirety to the present 
species, which, is, however, constantly smaller, the colouration of 
the elytra seems to be also constant, they are dark bronze with 
a rufo-testaceous broad band extending over half the width of the 
elytra, and beginning at about the third dorsal stria; the anterior 
tibiw are also tri-dentate outwardly. In spite of its great likeness 
to A. crassus, the difference in the shape of the genital armature 
is very great; the forcipate processes are symmetrical, very short, 
and bent downwards. 
Length 5-53 mm.; width 3$-3$ mm. 
Hab. Ovampoland. 
ABLABEROIDES EMERITUS, nN. spec. 
Body almost spherical, dark bronze, shining, but without an 
opaline sheen; antenne ferruginous; clypeus sharply tri-dentate 
in front, somewhat roughly punctured, frontal part of the head 
less roughly punctate than the clypeus, and with a basal broadly 
triangular smooth space ; prothorax very short and very broad, 
covered with minute punctures separated by very narrow smooth 
intervals which are sub-strigillate in the median part; scutellum 
closely punctate; elytra plainly ampliated laterally in the centre, 
very convex, very faintly quadri-striate in the dorsal part, and not 
at all on the sides, and with the intervals and sides finely and not 
deeply punctate; anterior tibiz bi-dentate ; basal tarsal joint much 
shorter than the second; the genital armature of the male consists 
of a symmetrical tube the downward opening of which is hidden 
by a broad, spatulate operculum-like valve which coyers also a 
moderately wide, forceps-like clasp. 
Length 53-64 mm.; width 4-44 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn, Salisbury, Sebakwe). 
ABLABEROIDES LAETULUS, Nn. spec. 
Bronze-black, sub-opaque, and yet with an iridescent sheen, 
antenne flavescent, legs ferruginous; body ovate; this species 
differs from A. @neus, which it resembles by the presence of a 
