68 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Evidently allied to A. cognatus, but more massive; the genital 

 armature differs, although it belongs to the same type, and in 

 A. cognatus the club of the male is not so conspicuously grooved. 



Hab. Natal (Durban) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg, Kustenburg, 

 ? Johannesburg) ; Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Sebakwe). 



Ablabeboides namaquanus, n. spec. 



Very dark bronze, nearly black underneath, and very dark brown 

 on the elytra, antennas wholly flavescent ; body very elongated ; 

 the appearance is more that of an Ablabcra than that of a 

 Trochalus ; clypeus narrow, sharply tri-dentate ; prothorax deeply 

 and very closely punctured ; scutellum very closely punctate ; elytra 

 elongated, sub-parallel, not much convex, plainly, yet not deeply 

 striate on the dorsal part, the striae numbering five or six on each 

 side, the intervals and sides are deeply and somewhat closely 

 punctate ; the legs are piceous-red, and the anterior tibiae tri- 

 dentate outwardly ; in the male the valve of the genital armature 

 is vertical and rounded at the apex, and the two forcipate processes 

 slender, symmetrical, strongly curved upwards, sub-horizontal at 

 apex, and altogether different from that of any of the other species. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Ablabeeoides testaceus, Fahr. 

 Ablabera testacea, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 114. 



Head and prothorax testaceous-red, elytra and under side flavescent, 

 no metallic sheen, antennae wholly yellow, club longer than the 

 pedicel; clypeus narrow in front, plainly tri-dentate; head, prothorax, 

 and scutellum deeply punctate ; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, not 

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

 striae with the intervals slightly costate near the basal part and 

 moderately deeply punctate ; posterior coxae entirely hairless along 

 the outer margin ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly ; posterior 

 ones broad, but only moderately ampliated inwardly. 



I have not been able to examine the genital armature of the male 

 of this species which very closely resembles A. flavipennis and 

 A. tenellus. 



Length 5-6 mm. ; width 2f-3|- mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, 

 Sebakwe). 



