1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 79 



the upper side and fringed along the prothorax and the elytral 

 margins with long but somewhat remote pallid bristles ; the elytra 

 are very convex and ampliated in the posterior part ; in the male the 

 clypeus is very strongly sinuate laterally in the anterior part, the 

 anterior angles are sharp but do not project, and the anterior margin 

 is plainly sinuate, the antennal club is infuscate with the three basal 

 joints of the pedicel rufescent and is 6-jointed, but the inner joint is 

 less than half the length of the one following ; the club is 5- jointed, 

 and the fifth joint of the pedicel is very briefly aculeate ; head and 

 prothorax very finely punctate, the clypeus is narrowly reflexed at 

 the apex, and the apical impressed transverse line is plainly visible ; 

 prothorax ampliated laterally with the anterior angles very sharp, 

 and the posterior ones much rounded, convex ; elytra covered with 

 equi-distant round punctures with smooth intervals and having no 

 traces of dorsal costules, the suture itself is very little raised; 

 pygidium often reddish or testaceous in the centre, legs piceous ; 

 abdominal segments and pectus moderately densely pubescent. 



Length 6-7|- mm. ; width 3-4| mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Uiten- 

 hage, Graham's Town, Kowie, East London). 



The colour of the elytra varies from straw-colour to rufescent. 



Ablabera hottentota, n. spec. 



Female : Shape and sculpture of A. lateralis, but slightly more 

 elongated, entirely black and fringed laterally with somewhat remote 

 greyish setae, the shape of the clypeus is similar, the antennal club 

 is 5-jointed ( ? ) ; in some examples there is a faint fulvous patch in 

 the posterior part of the elytra, and a similar spot on the pygidium. 



This species closely resembles A. lalandei, but is distinguished 

 from it by the very slender, moderately divaricating claws ; $ un- 

 known, but having most likely 6-jointed antennae. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3f mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam). 



Ablabeea hiesuta, Blanch., 

 Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 102. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous-red, broadly infuscate along the 

 base, the suture and the sides, or fuscous with a broad reddish 

 patch in the posterior discoidal part, very convex and conspicuously 

 inflated laterally behind, covered on the prothorax and elytra with 

 long, erect, remote greyish setae, and having a fringe of conspicuously 



