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joint half the size of the following one ; punctures on the head and 

 prothorax fine, deeper and a little wider on the elytra. 



Length 7-7-J mm. ; width 4-4|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Clanwilliam). 



Ablabera lalandei, Blanch., 

 Cat. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 101. 



Male : Black, glabrous on the upper side but fringed laterally with 

 moderately dense greyish hairs ; clypeus plainly sinuate laterally 

 near the apex, and only slightly emarginate in front with the angles 

 somewhat sharp, but not projecting ; club of antennae black, 

 7-jointed, the inner joint half the length of the one following, pedicel 

 rufescent; punctures on the elytra slightly wider and deeper than 

 those on the prothorax ; anterior claws robust, strongly divaricating. 

 This last character distinguishes the present species from A. hotten- 

 tota ; it is also slightly less convex in the posterior part. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl). 



Ablabera gravidula, n. spec. 



Female : Shape of A. splendida, but of heavier build, and with the 

 clypeus very slightly sinuate laterally towards the apex the outer 

 angles of which are not sharp, the anterior margin is nearly 

 straight ; black, with the elytra and legs chestnut-red, the prothorax 

 and elytra are fringed with a dense, long, fulvous pubescence, the 

 inner joint of the 6-jointed antennal club is half the length of the one 

 following, the head and prothorax are finely punctured, the punctures 

 on the elytra are deeper and less closely set than on the prothorax ; 

 pectus with a very long but not very dense pubescence. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Ablabera gratula, n. spec. 



Head and anterior part of prothorax black, the posterior is red, 

 scutellum black, under side piceous, legs rufescent ; elytra pale 

 testaceous and having an outer marginal narrow, fuscous band, the 

 pedicel of the antennae is flavous in both sexes, the club infuscate ; 

 the clypeus is deeply sinuate in front with the margin plainly 

 reflexed, distinctly sinuate laterally in the anterior part, and covered, 

 like the head, with deep equi-distant punctures, the antennal club of 

 the male is 7-jointed, the joints long and of equal length ; the 



