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Hah. Natal (Durban), Cape Colony (Seymour), Southern 

 Rhodesia (Victoria Falls, Buluwayo). 



In his description of 0. viriduhis, Boh., Lansberge mentions a 

 small longitudinal carina beginning at the centre of the clypeal one, 

 and reaching the apex, and he says also that Boheman has not 

 mentioned that character. Further on, in his comparison between 

 0. pecuarius and 0. viridulns, he insists upon the shape of the 

 spine of the posterior femora which is straight and conical, while in 

 ririclulus it is triangular and recurved, and the trochanters of the 

 latter are not spinose ; it is also smaller than 0. pccuarius, the 

 colour of which is bronze black, while 0. viridnJns is Inight In-onze ; 

 and he adds that it seems to be rarer than 0. pecuarius. I am 

 of opinion that Lansberge has mistaken the small developments 

 of his 0. pecuarius, which in truth are rare, for Boheman's species, 

 the co-type of which I have seen and which I take to be identical 

 with jjcc?/arw^s, Lansb. In two small examples from Natal this 

 very slight longitudinal carina on the clypeus exists but is extremely 

 fine and hardly noticeable ; the posterior trochanters are as spinose 

 as in normal examples, but although the lamina is well defined, the 

 tooth is hardly projecting and certainly not recurved ; the colour is 

 also as dark, and the marginal carina of the elytra is not foveolato- 

 punctate. For these reasons I think that the two species can safely 

 be considered as one. 



Onitis perturbator, n. spec. 



Female : Metallic green with a dull coppery sheen ; clypeus 

 darker than the rest of the head, nearly black, transversely plicate, 

 elongate, acuminate at tip and with the margin recurved, gense not 

 projecting, there is a short but distinct clypeal carina, a frontal one 

 with a distinct tubercle in the centre of it, and a moderately raised 

 vertical one ; prothorax convex, covered with closely set, deep 

 punctures, slightly impressed towards the basal part, which is 

 granulose instead of being punctate ; the two basal impressions are 

 very shallow ; elytra a little longer than broad, somewhat convex 

 and gibbose at middle along the suture, sinuate laterally at middle, 

 striate, intervals plane and having each a double series of briefly 

 setigerous punctures ; pygidium roughly and deeply punctured ; 

 under side densely pubescent, femora closely scabroso-punctate, 

 metasternum scabrous in the centre and very closely granulose 

 laterally. 



Length 21 mm. ; width 9 mm, 



Male unknown, 



