1900.] C<it(i/<)t//«' of the Cnlco/ihTd i>f Stud'li Allien. Ill 



iit apex, mucro elongate; posterior nuirgin of the intermediate femora 

 havini;- underneath a crenulate carina endin,^- liefoi'c the apex in a 

 sharp tooth, and obtusely dentate at apex; tibicC slender at base, 

 straight, curved from there and suddenly narrowly dilated; posterior 

 femora sub-dentate in the upper margin at middle, and emarginatc 

 from there, lower margin creuulate underneath, tibite gi-adually 

 dilated from base to apex, the dilatation not being great. 



Female: Clypcus more suddcidy rounded at tip than in the male; 

 femora simple, tibiae shorter, intermediate ones straight. 



Length 18-23 mm. ; width 10-13 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique, a)id Caffraria, teste Lansberge. Occurs also 

 in Abyssinia. 



This species is distinguishable from O. rokistns, Boh., b} the 

 presence of a clypeal carina and the incision on the anterioi- part 

 of the hind femoi'a of the male. 



Onitis DiSPAK, Pering., 



Plate XXXVI., fig. 31. 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1895, p 155. . 



Dark metallic green or bronze green, moderately shining ; head 

 granular, clypeus with a short carina, frontal carina raised, nearly 

 straight, basal carina not much raised and having in the middle a 

 short but distinct elongate tubercle somewhat grooved transversely ; 

 prothorax a little attenuate laterally in front and not much behind 

 in the male, moderately convex and covered with deep, closely set 

 punctures and some fine granules on the two basal impressions which 

 are not deep ; the median pa^rt of the base is carinate like the sides 

 and the anterior part ; scutellum moderately long and very sharp; 

 elytra a little convex, sinuate laterally at some distance from the 

 shoulder, humeral callus not very prominent, stride narrow, intervals 

 plane, finely and regularly punctured ; pygidium scarcely punctulate, 

 metasternum distinctly granular and having an ill-defined hollowed 

 median longitudinal line. 



Male : Anterior tibiae slender, nearly straight, quadri-dentate 

 outwardly, the teeth being blunt, mucro short, stumpy and densely 

 ciliate at base, carina underneath simple ; femora simple, inter- 

 mediate tibite normal, simple, posterior ones a little compressed and 

 with the outer angle produced into a long, flat unciform process nearlv 

 as long as the inner spur and curving slightly inwards (fig. 31). 



Female : A little more robust than the male, the clypeus is trans- 

 versely plicate, the tubercle on the vertex of the head is stronger 

 the intervals on the elytra are slightly coriaceous and the punctures 



