1900,1 Catalogue of the Coleoptera of SoiitJi Africa. 135 



Easily distinguishable from O. licittis by the sculpture of the 

 prothorax, which is punctate, instead of bein.t^ f^i^anulose. 

 Haf). Liowov Rhodesia (Manica). 



Onitis cribratus, Lansb., 

 Annal. Soc. Entom. de Belg., 1875, p. 92. 



" Oblongo-quadrate, thick; dark bronze, lilack beneath, clothed 

 with fulvous hairs, mouth and antennae brown ; head transversely 

 rugose, less closely punctate behind, ctypeal carina situated in the 

 middle, hardly manifest, frontal carina interrupted and joined by a 

 small, median tubercle, vertex shghtly raised behind, smooth in the 

 middle, non-marginate, genoe distinct, angular at tip ; prothorax 

 covered with very closely set confluent punctures, sub-canaliculate 

 longitudinally behind in the middle, base non-marginate, basal 

 impressions nearly obsolete, lateral part dilated and rounded 

 behind ; scutellum round, smooth ; elytra striate, striae non- 

 punctate, seventh hardly deeper than the others, intervals 

 olDliquely coriaceous ; pygidium sub-carinate lengthways ; under side 

 granulate, abdomen smooth, metasternum slightly sulcate ; anterior 

 femora carinate beneath. 



Length 22 mm. ; width 14^ mm. 



Male : Clypeus truncate ; prothorax more dilated in front than in 

 the female and with the seventh stria of elytra deeper ; anterior 

 femora with the anterior margin provided with a small tooth on 

 each side near the apex ; tibite slender, with five incurved teeth 

 underneath, the last one being the longest, mucro little elongate, 

 obliquely truncate ; posterior femora armed underneath with an 

 acute spine connected by a narrow lamina with a smaller tooth 

 situated close to the trochanters which are spinose. 



Female: Clypeus triangular; prothorax narrowed in front ; femora 

 non-spiny, tibiae shorter. 



Not unlike 0. pecuarius in shape, but more massive, and dis- 

 tinguishable from all the other metallic species by its shagreened 

 elytra and the triangular clypeus." 



Hab. N'Gamiland, teste Lansberge. 



I have not seen this species. 



Onitis minutus, Lansb., 

 Annal Soc. Entom. d. Belg., vol. xviii., 1875, p. 112. 



Bronze green on the head and thorax, with the legs and under side 

 metallic green, elytra testaceous, but with a slight greenish tinge ; 



