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long and dense sete along the outer margins, antennal club of the 
male and female 5-jointed, the inner joint slightly shorter than the 
one following, last joint of pedicel more laminate in the male than in 
the female, clypeus sinuate in the anterior lateral part, deeply emar- 
ginate in the anterior, and with the surface plane; sculpture as in 
the preceding species. 
Length 6-7 mm.; width 34-44 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl). 
ABLABERA TRANSVAALICA, N. spec. 
Very light straw-colour, with the frontal part of the head from the 
frontal suture to the base fuscous, the prothorax is also fuscous 
black, except for a narrow, stramineous lateral margin, the scutellum 
is black and the elytra have a narrow sutural, and a supra-marginal 
slightly broader fuscous band; clypeus longer than the head, reflexed 
at the apex, only slightly sinuate laterally in the anterior part, 
anterior margin arcuate from angle to angle, the latter sharp, but 
not projecting outwardly; head and clypeus finely and closely 
punctate; prothorax convex, ampliated laterally past the median 
part, closely punctulate ; elytra moderately elongated, slightly am- 
pliated in the posterior part, covered with closely set and somewhat 
deep punctures, glabrous on the upper side; under side pubescent ; 
antennal club of male 5-jointed, the inner joint shorter than the one 
following, fifth joint of pedicel very small, laminate; inner spur of 
anterior tibiz of the male strongly hooked. 
This species is distinguished from 4. hirsuta and also from 4. 
ptlosula and A. splendida, by the much longer and straighter clypeus, 
and the strongly hooked inner spur of the anterior tibize of the male. 
Length 64 mm.; width 33 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
ABLABERA HIRTICOLLIS, n. spec. 
Female: Head and anterior part of the prothorax black, posterior 
part of prothorax reddish, elytra very pale testaceous with a more 
or less broad fuscous lateral band; pygidium and under side 
fuscous, legs partly piceous; clypeus not sinuate laterally in the 
anterior part, faintly sinuate in front with the angles moderately 
sharp but not projecting ; antennal club 5-jointed with the inner 
joint half the length of the one following, the head and clypeus are 
somewhat deeply punctured; prothorax fringed laterally with long 
hairs and having a transverse fringe of similar hairs along but not 
on the anterior margin, as well as a few sub-appressed and shorter 
