1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 71 



long, slender forcipate processes, the right one is spatulate at the 

 tip, the other is acuminate. This species differs from A. breviusculus 

 in the shape of the genital armature and in the colour of the 

 antennae. 



Length 5-5f ; width 3^ mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay) ; Natal (Durban). 



Ablaberoides breviusculus, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 134. 



Body very short, somewhat massive, very dark bronze, iridescent, 

 legs piceous, antennae dark fuscous with the exception of the inter- 

 mediate joints of the pedicel which are rufescent ; clypeus dentate 

 in the middle of the anterior margin, the tooth continued in a con- 

 spicuous longitudinal keel, outer angles sharp, but not dentate, 

 frontal suture somewhat indistinct ; clypeal part between the anterior 

 keel and the frontal suture more roughly punctate than the frontal ; 

 prothorax deeply and evenly punctate ; scutellum moderately long, 

 strongly punctate ; elytra short, not ampliaced laterally, deeply 

 quadri- striate on the dorsal part, the lateral striae are either very 

 faint or partly distinct ; the genital armature of the male resembles 

 very much that of A. ominosus, but the two forcipate processes 

 which are also long and slender, are spatulate at 'the tip, thus 

 resembling those of A. decedens, which are, however, longer and bent 

 to the right side. 



Length 5-5^- mm ; width 3 J-4 mm. 



Hob. Natal (Frere) ; Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez) ; Southern 

 Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn). 



(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.) 



Triodonta lineolata, Brancs., 



Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., p. 113, 1897. 



" Ovate, rufo-testaceous, closely punctate, pubescent, the 

 pubescence slightly ochraceous and greyish ; head triangular, 

 clypeus truncate and slightly emarginate in front, without 

 denticule, impressed on each side, and with the margin reflexed ; 

 antennae testaceous ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, 

 roundly narrowed in front, anterior margin broadly and at the 

 same time slightly emarginate, posterior one slightly bi-sinuate, 

 with the angles straight, the anterior ones acuminate, dorsal part 

 piceous, with the sides undefinitely fuscous ; elytra distinctly striate 

 with the suture and the intervals 2-4 more raised, clothed with 



