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again a little sinuate towards the apex, more convex than plane, 

 and distinctly suh-gibbose past the middle along the suture, they 

 are narrowly striate with the first five intervals raised and more 

 or less tectiform, slightly plicate transversely and not punc- 

 tured but rugulose at apex ; pygidium punctulate and convex ; 

 anterior tibiae not very elongate, mucro hardly incurved and 

 moderately long, carina underneath not very much developed, and 

 simple, fringed with fulvous, not dense, hairs inwardly, the anterior 

 femora are normal, but the intermediate and posterior ones are dis- 

 tinctly serrate, the intermediate tibiae are faintly serrulate, but the 

 posterior ones are not ; metasternum scabroso-punctate in the centre, 

 closely granulose laterally, and having a narrowly grooved longi- 

 tudinal line in the centre. 



Length 12 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Female unknown. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp). 



Onitis confusus, Bohem., 



Plate XXXIV., figs. 5, 6a. 



Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 111. 



Piceous black, with a very faint metallic tinge on the elytra. 



Male : Clypeus a little elongate and acuminate but deeply incised 

 at apex, genae not projecting, margins of clypeus and genae recurved, 

 the whole head is finely and closely granular, instead of a clypeal 

 carina there is a very small tubercle, the frontal carina is slightly 

 sinuate, the vertical one is as much raised as the frontal, and close 

 to the former there is a median tubercle of about the same height 

 as the clypeal one, which latter is sometimes cariniform ; prothorax 

 somewhat convex, covered with moderately deep, closely set, round 

 punctures, the central part has a slight longitudinal impression 

 which, however, is not always noticeable, the two basal impressions 

 are set close to one another and are sub-triangular, the median part 

 of the base does not project much; scutellum extremely small; elytra 

 longer than broad, slightly sinuate laterally at some distance from 

 the shoulder, more plane than convex, sub-gibbose past the middle 

 along the suture, very narrowly striate with the seven intervals dis- 

 tinctly raised and tectiform from the base to past the middle and 

 irregularly punctured, the punctures apparently non-setigerous ; 

 pygidium a little convex, covered with setigerous punctures ; 

 anterior tibiee slightly curved, and with the mucro sub-horizontal 

 and turning slightly outwards, under the apical outer tooth there 

 is a very distinct vertical one (fig. 5), and the carina beneath is 



