1904.] . Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 67 
rufescent, 9-jointed, club not quite as long as the pedicel in the 
male; body sub-parallel and only moderately convex; clypeus 
sharply tri-dentate in front, sinuate laterally, the clypeal keel is 
distinct and the anterior part divided into two depressions by 
the keel-lke continuation of the median tooth, the frontal suture 
is fairly visible in some examples, or nearly obliterated in others, 
the anterior part of the head is scrobiculate, almost granulose, the 
posterior very deeply punctured ; the prothorax is short, more than 
twice broader than long, ampliated gradually from the apical angle 
to a short distance from the base, and rounded thence, strongly 
sloping and covered with deep, fine, sub-contiguous punctures ; 
elytra as broad at the base as the base of the prothorax, nearly 
straight laterally and rounded only in the posterior part, moderately 
convex in the anterior and having on each side five or six deep 
dorsal striz, and occasionally two lateral ones, and covered 
with deep, somewhat coarse striz ; pygidium convex, deeply punc- 
tate, the punctures separated by an interval about equal to their 
own diameter; legs and under side normal, anterior tibie plainly 
tri-dentate. 
Length 64 mm.; width 44 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg District), Southern Rhodesia 
(Sebakwe). 
In the male the two forcipate processes of the genital armature 
are very short. 
ABLABEROIDES OBTUSUS, Fahr., 
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 128. 
Black, sub-opaque, with a metallic sheen, or with the elytra 
chestnut-red with the suture and a broad marginal outer band 
deeply infuscate; in the totally black examples the elytra are 
slightly iridescent; basal joint of the pedicel and club black, the 
other joints rufescent, the club in the male is slightly longer than 
the whole pedicel, and the outer joint is so deeply grooved from 
base to apex that, when partially folded, the club seems to be quadri- 
articulate ; body short and massive like A. crassus or A. pavoninus ; 
the clypeus is sharply tri-dentate, the punctuation on the prothorax 
is moderately closely set and partly hidden in well-preserved 
specimens; the elytra have generally five plain dorsal striz on each 
side; in the male the lower part of the genital armature is bifid and 
vertical, the right valve being slightly longer than the left, and the 
forcipate processes long and slender ; anterior tibiz tri-dentate. 
Length 64-7 mm.; width 44-5 mm. 
