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1904. | Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 79 
the upper side and fringed along the prothorax and the elytral 
margins with long but somewhat remote pallid bristles; the elytra 
are very convex and ampliated in the posterior part; in the male the 
clypeus is very strongly sinuate laterally in the anterior part, the 
anterior angles are sharp but do not project, and the anterior margin 
is plainly sinuate, the antennal club is infuscate with the three basal 
joints of the pedicel rufescent and is 6-jointed, but the inner joint is 
less than half the length of the one following; the club is 5-jointed, 
and the fifth joint of the pedicel is very briefly aculeate; head and 
prothorax very finely punctate, the clypeus is narrowly reflexed at 
the apex, and the apical impressed transverse line is plainly visible ; 
prothorax ampliated laterally with the anterior angles very sharp, 
and the posterior ones much rounded, convex; elytra covered with 
equi-distant round punctures with smooth intervals and having no 
traces of dorsal costules, the suture itself is very little raised; 
pygidium often reddish or testaceous in the centre, legs piceous ; 
abdominal segments and pectus moderately densely pubescent. 
Length 6-74 mm.; width 3-44 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Uiten- 
hage, Graham’s Town, Kowie, Hast London). 
The colour of the elytra varies from straw-colour to rufescent. 
ABLABERA HOTTENTOTA, nN. Spec. 
Female: Shape and sculpture of A. lateralis, but slightly more 
elongated, entirely black and fringed laterally with somewhat remote 
greyish sete, the shape of the clypeus is similar, the antennal club 
is 5-jointed (); in some examples there is a faint fulvous patch in 
the posterior part of the elytra, and a similar spot on the pygidium. 
This species closely resembles A. lalandei, but is distinguished 
from it by the very slender, moderately divaricating claws; g un- 
known, but having most likely 6-jointed antenne. 
Length 6 mm.; width 34 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam). 
ABLABERA HIRSUTA, Blanch., 
Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 102. 
Black, with the elytra testaceous-red, broadly infuscate along the 
base, the suture and the sides, or fuscous with a broad reddish 
patch in the posterior discoidal part, very convex and conspicuously 
inflated laterally behind, covered on the prothorax and elytra with 
long, erect, remote greyish sete, and having a fringe of conspicuously 
