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long, slender forcipate processes, the right one is spatulate at the 
tip, the other is acuminate. This species differs from A. breviusculus 
in the shape of the genital armature and in the colour of the 
antenne. 
Length 5-53; width 34 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay); Natal (Durban). 
ABLABEROIDES BREVIUSCULUS, Fahr., 
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 134. 
Body very short, somewhat massive, very dark bronze, iridescent, 
legs piceous, antennz dark fuscous with the exception of the inter- 
mediate joints of the pedicel which are rufescent; clypeus dentate 
in the middle of the anterior margin, the tooth continued in a con- 
spicuous longitudinal keel, outer angles sharp, but not dentate, 
frontal suture somewhat indistinct ; clypeal part between the anterior 
keel and the frontal suture more roughly punctate than the frontal ; 
prothorax deeply and evenly punctate ; scutellum moderately long, 
strongly punctate; elytra short, not amplhated laterally, deeply 
quadri-striate on the dorsal part, the lateral striz are either very 
faint or partly distinct ; the genital armature of the male resembles 
very much that of A. ominosus, but the two forcipate processes 
which are also long and slender, are spatulate at the tip, thus 
resembling those of A. decedens, which are, however, longer and bent 
to the right side. 
Length 5-54 mm; width 33-4 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Frere); Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez) ; Southern 
Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn). 
(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.) 
TRIODONTA LINEOLATA, Brancs., 
Jars Vers Erenes., xvi:;p: 113, 1897. 
‘‘Ovate, rufo-testaceous, closely punctate, pubescent, the 
pubescence slightly ochraceous and greyish; head triangular, 
clypeus truncate and slightly emarginate in front, without 
denticule, impressed on each side, and with the margin reflexed ; 
antenne testaceous; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, 
roundly narrowed in front, anterior margin broadly and at the 
same time slightly emarginate, posterior one slightly bi-sinuate, 
with the angles straight, the anterior ones acuminate, dorsal part 
piceous, with the sides undefinitely fuscous; elytra distinctly striate 
with the suture and the intervals 2-4 more raised, clothed with 
