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ABLABEROIDES TENELLUS, Fahr. 
Triodonta tenella, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 135. 
Trochalus pallidipennis, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 135. 
Hardly different from A. testacews, except that the anterior tibie 
are bi- instead of tri-dentate outwardly; the elytra have a more or 
less distinct, infuscate outer marginal band, and in examples from 
Port Natal the prothorax has, according to Fahreus, an apical 
sub-triangular zneous patch; the shape, sculpture, and striation of 
elytra are exactly as in A. testaceus, and the antenne are also 
flavous. 
I have seen one example only of this species in addition to 
Fahreeus’ type, which is recorded from Port Natal, while my co- 
type is from Ovampoland. 
ABLABEROIDES FLAVIPENNIS, Fahr. 
Ablabera flavipennis, Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 120. 
This species is also so closely allied to A. tenellus and A. testaceus 
that they can be distinguished only with difficulty, and all three 
might prove to be one species only ; the colour, however, differs in 
being dark bronze with the elytra testaceous-red but retaining 
a black suture and an outer marginal infuscate band, or being 
uniformly dark chestnut-brown; I have also seen examples with 
the elytra uniformly testaceous-red, and also entirely black with 
a faint metallic sheen; it resembles in general appearance Camenta 
variabilis, and Fahrzeus described it as an Ablabera; it has no 
opaline sheen, the clypeal keel is highly raised, and the frontal 
suture deep. 
In the male the genital armature has two long, forcipate processes, 
the right one is longer and much more slender than the left and is 
spatulate at apex, the left one is wide with the tip acuminate. 
Length 44-54 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Estcourt); Bechuanaland (Kanye) ; Southern Rhodesia 
(Salisbury, Enkeldoorn, Buluwayo) ; Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 
ABLABEROIDES QUZESITUS, n. spec. 
Dark bronze, elytra light flavescent with the posterior part and 
the lateral margin infuscate, shining and sub-opaline especially on 
the elytra; antenne with the two basal joints and the antennal club 
fuscous, the remainder of the pedicel is rufescent ; it is less elongate 
than the three preceding species, and the elytra are plainly ampliated 
towards the posterior part; the legs are reddish, the clypeus very 
