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long and dense setae along the outer margins, antennal club of the 

 male and female 5-jointed, the inner joint slightly shorter than the 

 one following, last joint of pedicel more laminate in the male than in 

 the female, clypeus sinuate in the anterior lateral part, deeply emar- 

 ginate in the anterior, and with the surface plane ; sculpture as in 

 the preceding species. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3|— 4 J- mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl). 



Ablabeka transvaalica, n. spec. 



Very light straw-colour, with the frontal part of the head from the 

 frontal suture to the base fuscous, the prothorax is also fuscous 

 black, except for a narrow, stramineous lateral margin, the scutellum 

 is black and the elytra have a narrow sutural, and a supra-marginal 

 slightly broader fuscous band; clypeus longer than the head, reflexed 

 at the apex, only slightly sinuate laterally in the anterior part, 

 anterior margin arcuate from angle to angle, the latter sharp, but 

 not projecting outwardly ; head and clypeus finely and closely 

 punctate ; prothorax convex, ampliated laterally past the median 

 part, closely punctulate ; elytra moderately elongated, slightly am- 

 pliated in the posterior part, covered with closely set and somewhat 

 deep punctures, glabrous on the upper side ; under side pubescent ; 

 antennal club of male 5-jointed, the inner joint shorter than the one 

 following, fifth joint of pedicel very small, laminate ; inner spur of 

 anterior tibiae of the male strongly hooked. 



This species is distinguished from A. hirsuta and also from A. 

 pilosula and A. splendida, by the much longer and straighter clypeus, 

 and the strongly hooked inner spur of the anterior tibiae of the male. 



Length 6^- mm. ; width 3f mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 

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Ablabera hirticollis, n. spec. 



Female : Head and anterior part of the prothorax black, posterior 

 part of prothorax reddish, elytra very pale testaceous with a more 

 ■or less broad fuscous lateral band ; pygidium and under side 

 fuscous, legs partly piceous; clypeus not sinuate laterany in the 

 anterior part, faintly sinuate in front with the angles moderately 

 sharp but not projecting ; antennal club 5-jointed with the inner 

 joint half the length of the one following, the head and clypeus are 

 somewhat deeply punctured ; prothorax fringed laterally with long 

 hairs and having a transverse fringe of similar hairs along but not 

 on the anterior margin, as well as a few sub-appressed and shorter 



