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long as the head, plainly narrowed laterally, incised there close to the 

 apical margin which is strongly reflexed and the outer angles of 

 which are sharp and somewhat projecting in the male, this apical 

 margin is slightly bi-sinuate, owing to the median part being sub- 

 aculeate, head and clypeus covered with somewhat deep, sub- 

 contiguous punctures ; prothorax of the normal shape, and with the 

 normal punctures and lateral fringe of hairs ; elytra sub-cylindrical, 

 somewhat deeply punctured, and with the lateral fringe of hairs 

 neither very long nor dense ; inner spur of anterior tarsi of male 

 gradually curved outwardly. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Hope Town). 



Ablabeea eufa, Fabric, 



Syst. Ent., p. 36. 



Oliv. Ent., L, 5, p. 43, pi. vii., fig. 79. 



Female : Somewhat rufescent, but with the elytra a little paler, 

 fringed along the sides of the prothorax and elytra with a somewhat 

 long, dense, flavescent pubescence, antennae flavous ; clypeus plainly 

 ■emarginate laterally near the anterior , part, deeply bi-sinuate in 

 front with the angles fairly sharp but not projecting, and with the 

 median part plainly angular, the anterior margin is very highly 

 raised, and there is a slightly raised longitudinal median keel, hardly 

 reaching the clypeal suture which, in some examples, is slightly 

 keeled ; prothorax and elytra normally punctate, the latter without 

 any traces of dorsal costules. 



Length 7-J-9 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



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



Ablabeea eufipes, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 101. 



" Narrow, black, clothed with ashy-grey hairs underneath ; head 

 punctate, clypeus broadly reflexed with the angles prominent ; 

 antennse and palpi testaceous, club fuscous ; prothorax closely 

 punctate, and with the sides ciliate ; elytra oblong, black, roughly 

 punctate ; legs testaceous ; abdomen black, slightly pilose. 



Length 8 mm. 



Collected by Delalande." 



I have unfortunately mislaid my notes on the examination of 



