1900.] Calalogue of iJw Coh'optcra of Soiiili Africa. 183 



towards the base ; it is convex, marginate in front, on tlie sides, and 

 between the two basal impressions which are deep, and shghtly 

 slanting towards each other, the whole surface is covered with deep 

 punctures moderately closely set ; scutellum very distinct, a little 

 rounded at tip ; elytra sub-parallel, slightly sinuate laterally a little 

 before the middle, a little convex along the suture, narrowly striate 

 with the intervals nearly plane, and slightly coriaceous ; the ninth 

 interval is deeply foveato-ptmctate along the supra-marginal carina 

 in the male, but not in the female; pygidium a little convex, im- 

 punctate ; metasternum with a median shallow grooved line. 



Male : Clypeus not emarginate at tip, but not quite round ; 

 anterior tibiae long, a little incurved and with the mucro slanting, 

 sharply quadri-dentate outwardly, and having underneath three or 

 four equi-distant and very distinct teeth, femora having on the 

 anterior carina a truncate tooth situated nearer to the apex than to 

 the base ; intermediate femora carinate beneath but simple, tro- 

 chanters slightly spinose, tibiae normal ; posterior femora with a 

 sharp, long, nearly vertical, slightly bent tooth on the lower margin, 

 not laminate on either side (fig. 13) ; posterior tibiae very slender 

 from the base to about the median part, and ampliated from there. 



Female : Clypeus aculeate, sub-truncate at tip ; supra-marginal 

 carina of elytra not foveolato-punctate laterally ; legs simple. 



Length 16-19 mm. ; width 9-11^1^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Graham's Town, Knysna, Kim- 

 berley), Natal (Durban, Estcourt, Newcastle), Southern Ehodesia 

 (Buluwayo, Salisbury, Enkeldoorn), Orange Free State (Bloem- 

 fontein), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Onitis viridulus, Bohem., 



Plate XXXIV., fig. 14. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 253. 

 0. pccuarius, Lansb., Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1875, p. 32. 

 Bronze, with a faint greenish tinge on the elytra ; the description 

 of 0. crenatus applies to this species in almost every point, except 

 that the clypeal carina is situated a little nearer the apex in both 

 sexes, and that the tooth of the posterior femora has inwardly a 

 sharp lamina abruptly truncate near the trochanters which are 

 distinctly spinose (fig. 14) ; the supra-marginal carina of the elytra 

 is not foveolato-punctate inwardly, except very occasionally, and 

 theii only in the posterior part, and the anterior tibia^ of the male 

 have sometimes five teeth underneath. 

 Length 17-20 mm. : width 9^-lliy mm, 



