68 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. Xt. 
Evidently allied to A. cognatus, but more massive; the genital 
armature differs, although it belongs to the same type, and in 
A. cognatus the club of the male is not so conspicuously grooved. 
Hab. Natal (Durban); Transvaal (Lydenburg, Rustenburg, 
? Johannesburg); Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Sebakwe). 
ABLABEROIDES NAMAQUANUDS, Nl. spec. 
Very dark bronze, nearly black underneath, and very dark brown 
on the elytra, antenne wholly flavescent; body very elongated ; 
the appearance is more that of an Ablabera than that of a 
Trochalus ; clypeus narrow, sharply tri-dentate; prothorax deeply 
and very closely punctured; scutellum very closely punctate ; elytra 
elongated, sub-parallel, not much convex, plainly, yet not deeply 
striate on the dorsal part, the stria numbering five or six on each 
side, the intervals and sides are deeply and somewhat closely 
punctate; the legs are piceous-red, and the anterior tibiz tri- 
dentate outwardly; in the male the valve of the genital armature 
is vertical and rounded at the apex, and the two forcipate processes 
slender, symmetrical, strongly curved upwards, sub-horizontal at 
apex, and altogether different from that of any of the other species. 
Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 
ABLABEROIDES TESTACEUS, Fahr. 
Ablabera testacea, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 114. 
Head and prothorax testaceous-red, elytra and under side flavescent, 
no metallic sheen, antennze wholly yellow, club longer than the 
pedicel ; clypeus narrow in front, plainly tri-dentate; head, prothorax, 
and scutellum deeply punctate; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, not 
convex in the anterior part, and having on each side five or six 
strie with the intervals slightly costate near the basal part and 
moderately deeply punctate ; posterior coxe entirely hairless along 
the outer margin; anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly ; posterior 
ones broad, but only moderately ampliated inwardly. 
I have not been able to examine the genital armature of the male 
of this species which very closely resembles A. flavipennis and 
A, tenellus. 
Length 5-6 mm.; width 23-31 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg), Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, 
Sebakwe). 
