1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 69 



Ablaberoides tenellus, Fahr. 



Triodonta tenella, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 135. 

 Trochalus pallidipennis , Fahr., loc. cit., p. 135. 



Hardly different from A. testaceus, except that the anterior tibiae 

 are bi- instead of tri-dentate outwardly ; the elytra have a more or 

 less distinct, infuscate outer marginal band, and in examples from 

 Port Natal the prothorax has, according to Fahraeus, an apical 

 sub-triangular aeneous patch ; the shape, sculpture, and striation of 

 elytra are exactly as in A. testaceus, and the antennae are also' 

 flavous. 



I have seen one example only of this species in addition to 

 Fahraeus' type, which is recorded from Port Natal, while my co- 

 type is from Ovampoland. 



Ablaberoides flavipennis, Fahr. 

 Ablabera flavipennis, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 120. 



This species is also so closely allied to A. tenellus and A. testaceus 

 that they can be distinguished only with difficulty, and all three 

 might prove to be one species only ; the colour, however, differs in 

 being dark bronze with the elytra testaceous-red but retaining 

 a black suture and an outer marginal infuscate band, or being 

 uniformly dark chestnut- brown ; I have also seen examples with 

 the elytra uniformly testaceous-red, and also entirely black with 

 a faint metallic sheen ; it resembles in general appearance Camenta 

 variabilis, and Fahraeus described it as an Ablabera; it has no 

 opaline sheen, the clypeal keel is highly raised, and the frontal 

 suture deep. 



In the male the genital armature has two long, forcipate processes, 

 the right one is longer and much more slender than the left and is 

 spatulate at apex, the left one is wide with the tip acuminate. 



Length 4J-5J mm. 



Hab . Natal (Estcourt) ; Bechuanaland (Kanye) ; Southern Ehodesia 

 (Salisbury, Enkeldoorn, Buluwayo) ; Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 



Ablaberoides qu^esitus, n. spec. 



Dark bronze, elytra light flavescent with the posterior part and 

 the lateral margin infuscate, shining and sub-opaline especially on 

 the elytra ; antennae with the two basal joints and the antennal club 

 fuscous, the remainder of the pedicel is rufescent ; it is less elongate 

 than the three preceding species, and the elytra are plainly ampliated 

 towards the posterior part ; the legs are reddish, the clypeus very 



