86 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vol. xiii. 



Blanchard's types, and I am therefore not certain that this species 

 is a valid one. 



Ablabera advena, Gyllh., Schonh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, App., p. 100. 



C. B. S. 

 Ablabera analis, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 427. 



C. B. S. 

 Ablabera apicalis, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., 117. Orange Eiver. 

 Ablabera lutaria, Har., Col. Heft., v., 1869. 



A. luridipennis, Burm., Handb., iv., 2, p. 141. C. B. S. 

 Ablabera nana, Gyllh., Schonh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, App., p. 72. 



C. B. S. 

 Ablabera pellucida, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 140, 



C. B. S. 

 Ablabera rostrata, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 138. 



Caffr aria. 

 Ablabera similata, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 140. 



C. B. S. 

 Ablabera tenebrosa, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 142. 



Caffraria. 

 Ablabera vidua, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 142. Caffraria. 



It is most probable that on comparison with the types, all 

 these species will be found to have been described in this Catalogue,, 

 under a different name, and that several of them will prove to 

 be synonymous. 



MICEOCAMENTA, Brensk., 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 346. 



Facies and buccal organs of Ablabera and C amenta ; antennas 

 10-jointed, the club 7-jointed in the male, 6-jointed in the female : 

 clypeus deeply emarginate laterally with the anterior part strongly 

 reflexed and with a median, transverse, more or less raised suture, 

 and a plain clypeal one, genae strongly developed, oblique; the claws 

 have a plain, small curved tooth underneath instead of being finely 

 cleft. 



The characters distinguishing this genus from some species of 

 Ablabera are the presence of two parallel arcuate keels or sutures 

 on the clypeus, and the strong development of the genas. 



Key to the Species. 



A 3 . Anterior margin of clypeus straight. 



Black ; clypeus in the male with two plainly raised keels ; 



inner spur of anterior tibiae straight , . transvaalensis. 



