1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 61 



a 1 . Body ovate, convex, short. 



Antennae black, with the four joints of the pedicel red breviusculus. 



Antennae ferruginous, with the club slightly fuscous in 



the male ominosus. 



Ablabekoides ^neus, Blanch., 



Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 102. 



TrocJialus longicomis, Burm., Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 2, p. 162. 



Oblongo-ovate, convex, dark bronze, lighter on the head and 

 prothorax than on the elytra, palpi and tarsi somewhat rufescent ; 

 antennae piceous, with the four ultimate joints of the pedicel sub- 

 rufescent, club of the male more than twice the length of the pedicel 

 the joints of which are free ; clypeus strongly constricted laterally 

 and with a strong sinuation between the genae and the constricted 

 part, the anterior margin is straight with the outer angles sharp 

 but not dentate, the centre, however, is plainly dentate, the dentate 

 part forming a carinule which divides the anterior part into two 

 depressions as far as the clypeal keel which is somewhat short, the 

 frontal suture is quite plain, not arcuate, the genae are strongly 

 developed, and meet the hind keel of the eyes, and the whole 

 surface is very deeply and closely punctate ; prothorax twice as 

 broad as long, bi-sinuate in front and behind, very slightly 

 attenuated laterally towards the apical part the carinate margin 

 of which has a fringe of not closely set bristles, it is covered with 

 somewhat deep punctures separated by a smooth space slightly 

 narrower than their own diameter ; scutellum ogival, sparingly 

 punctate ; elytra about twice the length of the prothorax, some- 

 what convex in the anterior part, and having four very plain dorsal 

 striae on each side, the outer striae are obliterated, and the surface 

 is covered with deep, somewhat coarse punctures ; pygidium some- 

 what convex, closely and deeply punctate ; under side very deeply 

 punctate ; the metasternum with a few short hairs ; hind coxae with 

 a few lateral bristle-like hairs similar to those edging the margin 

 of the elytra, femora and anterior coxae hairy ; anterior tibiae tri- 

 dentate but with the basal outer tooth much smaller than the others, 

 although distinct ; anterior tarsi shorter than the intermediate or 

 posterior ones, the basal one of the latter is as long as the one fol- 

 lowing, and shorter than the apical spur, the broadly dilated and 

 somewhat short hind tibiae are strongly spinose inwardly, and the 

 hind coxae have a nearly straight posterior margin ; abdominal 

 segments with one row of briefly setigerous punctures. 



In the male the tubular part of the armature is deeply, roundly 



