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ones scattered about the disk on well-preserved specimens ; scutellum 
black, elytra sub-parallel, moderately convex behind, somewhat 
deeply punctate and having a faint trace of a dorsal costule, the 
suture is narrowly infuscate in some examples; in well-preserved 
examples there is a row of sub-appressed hairs on the clypeal suture, 
and also three or four hairs along the anterior depression. 
Length 64-94 mm. ; width 34-5 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (? Worcester, Kowie). 
I have seen an example of this species entirely black. 
ABLABERA PILOSULA, Fahr., 
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 116. 
A. pulacaria, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 121. 
Head infuscate, prothorax reddish, elytra very pale testaceous, 
almost straw-colour, head and anterior part of clypeus_ briefly, 
prothorax densely pubescent, elytra with rows of moderately long, 
erect, sub-flavescent hairs, greyish along the margins; clypeus not 
sinuate laterally but deeply emarginate in front with the anterior 
part more deeply impressed than in the other species of Ablabera 
known to me, and with the impression edged by a very faint trans- 
verse suture in the manner of Camenta ; elytra convex; sculpture 
normal; antennal club 5-jointed in both sexes. 
Owing to the presence of a clypeal suture, which is, however, very 
faint, in addition to the frontal one, this species might be included 
in Camenta, but the shape of the claws is that of Ablabera. 
Length 54 mm.; width 3 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Stellenbosch, Cape Town). 
I am not quite sure that this is the true A. piloswla of Fahreus. 
ABLABERA CAPICOLA, N. spec. 
Head and prothorax black, elytra fuscous, or faintly chestnut- 
brown in the posterior part, under side infuscate, legs reddish, club 
of antenneze fuscous, the pedicel rufescent; head and prothorax 
glabrous, the latter, however, fringed with a dense, long fulvous 
pubescence; elytra with short, greyish erect hairs arranged in 
regular rows, and having along the margins a dense fringe of fulvous 
hairs ; clypeus not sinuate laterally, arcuately emarginate in front, 
but with the outer angles slightly rounded in both the sexes ; 
antennal club of male moderately long, 7-jointed, but with the inner 
joint less than half the length of the one following, which is also 
slightly shorter than the others, 6-jointed in the female, the inner 
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