•-G4 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



A most variable species, not only in colouring, but also in the 

 general appearance, which is either sub-parallel or more or less 

 convex ; the female is, however, less parallel than the male. 



Ablaberoides rufovittatus, Pering., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 33. 



The description of A. crassus applies in its entirety to the present 

 species, which, is, however, constantly smaller, the colouration of 

 the elytra seems to be also constant, they are dark bronze with 

 a rufo- testaceous broad band extending over half the width of the 

 elytra, and beginning at about the third dorsal stria ; the anterior 

 tibiae are also tri-dentate outwardly. In spite of its great likeness 

 to A. crassus, the difference in the shape of the genital armature 

 is very great ; the forcipate processes are symmetrical, very short, 

 and bent downwards. 



Length 5-5J mm. ; width 3J-3f mm. 



Hob. Ovampoland. 



Ablaberoides emeritus, n. spec. 



Body almost spherical, dark bronze, shining, but without an 

 opaline sheen ; antennae ferruginous ; clypeus sharply tri-dentate 

 in front, somewhat roughly punctured, frontal part of the head 

 less roughly punctate than the clypeus, and with a basal broadly 

 triangular smooth space ; prothorax very short and very broad, 

 covered with minute punctures separated by very narrow smooth 

 intervals which are sub-strigillate in the median part ; scutellum 

 closely punctate; elytra plainly ampliated laterally in the centre, 

 very convex, very faintly quadri-striate in the dorsal part, and not 

 at all on the sides, and with the intervals and sides finely and not 

 deeply punctate ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; basal tarsal joint much 

 shorter than the second ; the genital armature of the male consists 

 of a symmetrical tube the downward opening of which is hidden 

 by a broad, spatulate operculum-like valve which covers also a 

 moderately wide, forceps-like clasp. 



Length 5|— 6|- mm. ; width 4-4 \ mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Enkeldoorn, Salisbury, Sebakwe). 



Ablaberoides laetulus, n. spec. 



Bronze-black, sub-opaque, and yet with an iridescent sheen, 

 antennae flavescent, legs ferruginous ; body ovate ; this species 

 differs from A. cencus, which it resembles by the presence of a 



