1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 67 



rufescent, 9-jointed, club not quite as long as the pedicel in the 

 male ; body sub-parallel and only moderately convex ; clypeus 

 sharply tri-dentate in front, sinuate laterally, the clypeal keel is 

 distinct and the anterior part divided into two depressions by 

 the keel-like continuation of the median tooth, the frontal suture 

 is fairly visible in some examples, or nearly obliterated in others, 

 the anterior part of the head is scrobiculate, almost granulose, the 

 posterior very deeply punctured ; the prothorax is short, more than 

 twice broader than long, ampliated gradually from the apical angle 

 to a short distance from the base, and rounded thence, strongly 

 sloping and covered with deep, fine, sub-contiguous punctures ; 

 elytra as broad at the base as the base of the prothorax, nearly 

 straight laterally and rounded only in the posterior part, moderately 

 convex in the anterior and having on each side five or six deep 

 dorsal striae, and occasionally two lateral ones, and covered 

 with deep, somewhat coarse striae ; pygidium convex, deeply punc- 

 tate, the punctures separated by an interval about equal to their 

 own diameter ; legs and under side normal, anterior tibiae plainly 

 tri-dentate. 



Length 6|- mm. ; width 4-J- mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg District), Southern Ehodesia 

 (Sebakwe). 



In the male the two forcipate processes of the genital armature 

 are very short. 



Ablaberoides obtusus, Fa.hr., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 128. 



Black, sub-opaque, with a metallic sheen, or with the elytra 

 chestnut-red with the suture and a broad marginal outer band 

 deeply infuscate ; in the totally black examples the elytra are 

 slightly iridescent ; basal joint of the pedicel and club black, the 

 other joints rufescent, the club in the male is slightly longer than 

 the whole pedicel, and the outer joint is so deeply grooved from 

 base to apex that, when partially folded, the club seems to be quadri- 

 articulate ; body short and massive like A. crassus or A. pavoninus ; 

 the clypeus is sharply tri-dentate, the punctuation on the prothorax 

 is moderately closely set and partly hidden in well-preserved 

 specimens ; the elytra have generally five plain dorsal striae on each 

 side ; in the male the lower part of the genital armature is bifid and 

 vertical, the right valve being slightly longer than the left, and the 

 forcipate processes long and slender ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate. 



Length 6|— 7 mm. ; width 4-|— 5 mm. 



