1900.J Catalogue of tJtc Coleoptcra of South Africa. 165 



Gi'iijiKilaiul West, Knysna, Somerset East), Natal (Frere, ])uil)aii, 

 ]\ Far it/burg), Transvaal (Rustenl)urg). 



1l is also recorded from Angola and Senegal (Kolbe). 



Onitickllus afkicanus, Har., 

 Coleopt., lleft. \i., 1873, p. 105. 



Pale testaceous witli a metallic tinge and variegated on the head, 

 prothorax and elytra with small, irregular, dark green patches ; liead 

 punctuUite, clypeus diagonal laterally, nearly truncate at tip but for 

 a slight cmargination, gemc projecting conspicuously, in the male 

 there is a slightly raised median ridge, a faint depression behind it, 

 and the vertex is distmctly carinate, in the female there is a trans- 

 verse carina following the shape of the edge of the clypeus and set 

 very close to it, and another triangular one reaching both genae, this 

 second ridge is not quite a median one, the occipital impression, 

 and also the ridge on the vertex are similar in both sexes ; prothorax 

 very convex in the anterior part, plane above, sub-vertical laterally, 

 slightly grooved longitudinally at middle, covered with broad but not 

 deep, nor closely set punctures, the dark green patches on the 

 middle are sometimes in the shape of a more or less defined lozenge, 

 but there are nearly always two median, well-defined, small, tri- 

 angular shining spots, one on each side of the longitudinal impres- 

 sion ; scutellum very long and sharp ; elytra hardly longer than 

 the prothorax, sub-parallel, not strongly sinuate laterally but with 

 the episternon of tlie metasternum and the edges of the abdominal 

 segments conspicuously projecting, the suture and the second and 

 hfth intervals are raised, the latter more conspicuously than the 

 former, and ends in an apical green, shining callus, the other intervals 

 are plane and very briefly setigerous, but the apical margin is fringed 

 with long fascicles of hairs ; prosternum slightly knobby between 

 the coxae, mesosternum broad and with a sharp tubercle at apex, 

 metasternum punctulate, and slightly carinate lengthways from 

 apex to base ; pygidium vertical and with a small, median, shining 

 tubercle. 



Length 9-11 nun. ; width -i-o^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenl^osch, Worcester, 

 Clanwilliam, Somerset East, Kimberley, Queen's Town), Natal 

 (Newcastle, Frere, Durban), Transvaal (Lydenburg, Potchef- 

 stroom). 



This species is extremely closely connected with 0. 'pallipcs of 

 Southern Europe, Egypt, Syria, and ^Morocco, and which Kolbe 



