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robust, bi-incised on the upper edge and without oblique ridge, 
the apical spurs sharp in both sexes, but more sinuate in the 
female, in which sex the posterior tarsi are also shorter. 
The species which I have been able to observe fly very low in the 
daytime, and are met with from August to April in the Western Pro- 
vinces of the Cape Colony. 
The genus might be divided into two sections (Parablabera, 
Ablabera), owing to the number of joints forming the antennal 
club, but it is sometimes difficult to decide if the last joint of 
the pedicel is a part of the club or not, owing to its being very 
often briefly laminate. This division is also very artificial, because 
A. gratula, for instance, with a 7-jointed club in the male has the 
same shape and colouring as the species belonging to the group in 
which the male has a 6-jointed antennal club. 
The first section is mostly restricted to the Cape Colony, but it has 
one representative in the Transvaal. One species of the genus is 
recorded from German East Africa. 
The character distinguishing this genus from Microcamenta, the 
claws of which are alike, is the absence of a median transverse ridge 
or clypeal suture in addition to the frontal one, and from Camenta, 
the shape of the claws which are not lobate or swollen underneath 
at the base. 
Key to the Species. 
A?. Antennal club of male 5- or 6-, of female 5-jointed, the ulti- 
mate joint of the pedicel laminate but short in both sexes .. (Parablabera.) 
a.? Antennal club of male 5-jointed. 
Black, with the elytra partly testaceous, upper side clothed 
with long, greyish remote hairs; clypeus not impressed in 
OM oa o@- Shp. oe op. SOON anti Sum moUmE mine oOo eN On fs 
Fuscous, with the elytra straw-colour, upper side densely 
pubescent, clypeus impressed in front, not longer than the 
CREM mnt ME ss ince oes) ec ws an los, “pelosula. 
a. Antennal club of male 6-jointed. 
Black, the elytra testaceous with a broad, black, marginal, 
pasaland’suturaliband, <=. 2. «1 o. «1 -. -- splendida. 
a, The ultimate joint of the pedicel not laminate in the female. 
Body black, glabrous on the upper side Sc oo ool 65 Onto 
Straw-colour, with the prothorax fuscous, and a sutural and 
marginal fuscous elytral band; clypeus longer than the 
forehead; inner spur of anterior tibiew of male strongly 
OOkedey weet ess Mn cee) sis dee sews ite «. transvacdlica. 
Black, with the elytra testaceous and glabrous, prothorax 
with a juxta-marginal band of hairs in the anterior part .. hirticollis. 
