1900.] Catalogue of the Culcoptcra of So/dli Africa. 143 



behind between the impressions, and granulate, these two basal 

 impressions are very close together, the lateral part is ampliate 

 in the middle, narrowed behind, distinctly sinuate, with the angles 

 nearly straight ; scutellum reduced to a mere dot ; elytra elongate, 

 striate, striic obsoletely punctulate, intervals plane, very finely and 

 sparsely punctulate, seventh stria shghtly impressed ; pygidium 

 smooth ; under side granular, clothed with long, fulvous hairs ; 

 metasternum and abdomen, smooth in the middle, and the latter 

 is sub-carinate. 



Length 22-25 mm ; width 11-12^ mm. 



Male :. Anterior femora thick, with the anterior margin broad, and 

 having an external spine near the apex ; tibia3 nearly straight and 

 having underneath at the base a very strong, straight spine, as well 

 as an obsolete small tooth, they are dilated inwardly, and the mucro 

 is small and sharp ; intermediate femora serrulate inwardly, deeply 

 emarginate and dentate at apex, tibiie slender, incurved, suddenly 

 dilated in a quadrate shape at apex ; posterior femora provided 

 inwardly with a lamina gradually increased in a strong recurved 

 tooth, and Iniefly emarginate at apex, tibiiB slender at base, and 

 then suddenly and strongly incurved, and dilated inwardly in a 

 quadrate shape. 



Female : Tubercle on the vertex of the head more raised ; legs 

 simple, intermediate and posterior femora finely serrulate inwardly ; 

 tibiae dilated into a triangle. 



Allied to 0. unguiculatus, from which it differs, as also from 

 0. curvipes and 0. uncinatus, by having a tubercle on the posterior 

 edge of the head. It differs from 0. mniszechi, which has a similar 

 tubercle, by its smaller facies, the shape of the clypeus, which is 

 not rostrate in the female, and by the sculpture of the prothorax, 

 which is granulate, whilst in 0. miiis2ccJu it consists to a great 

 extent of punctures." 



Hah. Mozambique and Nubia, teste Lansberge. 



I have not yet met with this species. 



Onitis curvipes, Lansb., 

 Plate XXXIV., figs. 4, 4a. 

 Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1875, Klug, p. 652. 

 Piceous black or piceous red, hardly metallic ; head sharply acule- 

 ate ; granulose, no clypeal carina, frontal carina connected laterally 

 with the basal one which in the male is not more raised than 

 the frontal one, and in the female scarcely more so, gense not project- 

 ing at all ; prothorax ampliated laterally from the apex to about two- 



