126 Transactions South. African Philosopliical Society, [vol. xii. 



sinuate at middle, genie straight, not prominent ; prothorax convex, 

 large, marginate on each side, finally punctate with the punctures 

 denser in front and on the sides, sub-canaliculate longitudinally, a little 

 projecting in the centre of the base, hardly ampliate laterally, some- 

 what straight behind and with the posterior angles rounded ; 

 scutellum elongate ; elytra elongate, depressed, striate, intervals 

 ruo'ulose, third and fifth more raised than the others, second, fifth, 

 and eighth transversely rugose ; body granulate ))eneath, clothed 

 with fulvous hairs, metasternum broadly sulcate, and cristate on the 

 sides. 



Male: Clypeus sub-triangular, truncate in front, anterior femora 

 w'ith the anterior margin armed with four teeth ; anterior tibite 

 simple beneath, ciliate, mucro curved, obtuse ; intermediate femora 

 plane, dilated inwardly, sub-emarginate at apex, posterior femora 

 simple." 



Female unknown. 



Length 40 mm ; wddth 20 mm. 



This description, which is taken from Lansberge, who has also 

 culled it from Bertoloni, would, as he rightly says, correspond with 

 that of 0. hohemanni, were it not that the anterior tibia? are non- 

 spinose underneath. 



Ilab. Mozambique (Inhamlxine), teste Bertoloni. 



OxiTis PARADOXUS, Bohem., 



Plate XXXIV., fig. 2. 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 2-4-1. 



Piceous red, shining ; head closely granulate ; prothorax covered 

 with closely set, elongate, scabrose punctures which are granulose in 

 the anterior and lateral parts, but less dense along the base, the 

 latter is carinate hke the sides and anterior margin, and moderately 

 aculeate in the centre, the two foveas on each side of the median 

 part are deep and elongate, the median part of the disk has a 

 smooth longitudinal line slightly grooved; scutellum narrow, parallel, 

 truncate at tip ; elytra elongate, sub-parallel, one-fifth longer than 

 the prothorax, nearly plane but with the posterior part of the 

 suture carinate, and the anterior part depressed ; they are deeply 

 striate with the first four intervals plane and the outer three tectiform, 

 the supra-marginal carina is very sharp, and all the intervals are 

 sub-rugose ; the declivous part is clothed with long, fulvous hairs ; 

 under side clothed with long and dense fulvous hairs ; metasternum 

 very closely granulate ; pygidium granulose. 



Male: Clypeus slightly emarginate; clypeal carina broad, set close 



