1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 85 
long as the head, plainly narrowed laterally, incised there close to the 
apical margin which is strongly reflexed and the outer angles of 
which are sharp and somewhat projecting in the male, this apical 
margin is slightly bi-smuate, owing to the median part being sub- 
aculeate, head and clypeus covered with somewhat deep, sub- 
contiguous punctures ; prothorax of the normal shape, and with the 
normal punctures and lateral fringe of hairs; elytra sub-cylindrical, 
somewhat deeply punctured, and with the lateral fringe of hairs 
neither very long nor dense; inner spur of anterior tarsi of male 
gradually curved outwardly. 
Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Hope Town). 
ABLABERA RUFA, Fabric., 
Syst. Ent., p. 36. 
Oliv. Ent., i., 5, p. 43, pl. vii., fig. 79. 
Female : Somewhat rufescent, but with the elytra a little paler, 
fringed along the sides of the protborax and elytra with a somewhat 
long, dense, flavescent pubescence, antenne flavous ; clypeus plainly 
emarginate laterally near the anterior part, deeply bi-sinuate in 
front with the angles fairly sharp but not projecting, and with the 
median part plainly angular, the anterior margin is very highly 
raised, and there is a slightly raised longitudinal median keel, hardly 
reaching the clypeal suture which, in some examples, is slightly 
keeled ; prothorax and elytra normally punctate, the latter without 
any traces of dorsal costules. 
Length 74-9 mm.; width 4-5 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 
(Species which I have not been able to identify). 
ABLABERA RUFIPES, Blanch., 
Catal. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 101. 
‘“‘ Narrow, black, clothed with ashy-grey hairs underneath ; head 
punctate, clypeus broadly reflexed with the angles prominent ; 
antenne and palpi testaceous, club fuscous; prothorax closely 
punctate, and with the sides ciliate; elytra oblong, black, roughly 
punctate; legs testaceous ; abdomen black, slightly pilose. 
Length 8 mm. 
Collected by Delalande.”’ 
I have unfortunately mislaid my notes on the examination of 
