1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 81 



ones scattered about the disk on well-preserved specimens ; scutellum 

 black, elytra sub-parallel, moderately convex behind, somewhat 

 deeply punctate and having a faint trace of a dorsal costule, the 

 suture is narrowly infuscate in some examples ; in well-preserved 

 examples there is a row of sub-appressed hairs on the clypeal suture, 

 and also three or four hairs along the anterior depression. 



Length 6^-9^- mm. ; width 3J-5J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (? Worcester, Kowie). 



I have seen an example of this species entirely black. 



Ablabeea pilosula, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 116. 

 A. pulicaria, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 121. 



Head infuscate, prothorax reddish, elytra very pale testaceous, 

 almost straw-colour, head and anterior part of clypeus briefly, 

 prothorax densely pubescent, elytra with rows of moderately long, 

 erect, sub-flavescent hairs, greyish along the margins ; clypeus not 

 sinuate laterally but deeply emarginate in front with the anterior 

 part more deeply impressed than in the other species of Ablabera 

 known to me, and with the impression edged by a very faint trans- 

 verse suture in the manner of Gamenta ; elytra convex ; sculpture 

 normal ; antennal club 5-jointed in both sexes. 



Owing to the presence of a clypeal suture, which is, however, very 

 faint, in addition to the frontal one, this species might be included 

 in C amenta, but the shape of the claws is that of Ablabera. 



Length 5 J mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Stellenbosch, Cape Town). 



I am not quite sure that this is the true A. pilosula of Fahraeus. 



Ablabeea capicola, n. spec. 



Head and prothorax black, elytra fuscous, or faintly chestnut- 

 brown in the posterior part, under side infuscate, legs reddish, club 

 of antennae fuscous, the pedicel rufescent ; head and prothorax 

 glabrous, the latter, however, fringed with a dense, long fulvous 

 pubescence ; elytra with short, greyish erect hairs arranged in 

 regular rows, and having along the margins a dense fringe of fulvous 

 hairs ; clypeus not sinuate laterally, arcuately emarginate in front, 

 but with the outer angles slightly rounded in both the sexes ; 

 antennal club of male moderately long, 7-jointed, but with the inner 

 joint less than half the length of the one following, which is also 

 slightly shorter than the others, 6-jointed in the female, the inner 



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