Coleoptera from South Africa. 15o 



also toothed, but with the tooth smaller than the one of the cariua, 

 tibiaj narrow at the base and almost suddenly enlarged in an 

 elongate quadrate laminated process inwardly ; posterior femora 

 with a small, serrate carina, tibise slightly incurved, not dilated 

 iuw^ardly. Length 24-26, width 14 mm. 

 Hab. Zambezia (Manica). 



Belongs to the group of 0. curvipes, Lansb. ; tbe 

 clypeus is less aculeate in the male, and the general 

 facies is a little less convex. As in 0. curvipes the inter- 

 mediate tibiae of the S lif^ve an inner lamina, but diffe- 

 rently shaped, and the disposition of the teeth on the 

 anterior and posterior femora is very different. 



0. dispar, n. sp. 



Dark metallic-green, moderately shining, but more opaque on 

 the elytra ; head with the clypeus rounded in the cJ , a little more 

 aculeate in the $ , finely plicate in front, rugose behind, with a 

 short clypeal ridge and a frontal one moderately raised, vertex a 

 little hollowed, and with the posterior part carinate and the 

 median part much raised in both sexes ; prothorax moderately 

 convex, closely punctured from apex to base ; elytra elongate, 

 hardly convex, feebly striate, with the intervals faintly punctured ; 

 metasternum and femora closely punctured. In the $ the anterior 

 femora are thick, with a very small median carina, and are with- 

 out teeth, the tibite are straight, carinate in the middle, faintly 

 serrate' inwardly, quadri-dentate outwardly, with the inner tooth 

 short and with a long fascicle of hairs underneath, intermediate 

 and posterior femora with an acute posterior lamina, but neither 

 dentate nor serrate, intermediate tibioj normal, posterior ones com- 

 pressed and with a long terminal spur on each side, the inner one 

 spiniform, the other one thicker, but both curving slightly inward. 

 Length 24, width 13-14 mm. 



Hab. Zambezia. 



Allied to 0. rohustus, Boh., and 0. ortlioptus, Lansb., 

 but differentiated from both by the shape of the terminal 

 part of the hind tibiae. 



Gen. Onthopeagus, Latreille. 

 0. mashmtu.s, n. sp. 



Black, with a slight bronze sheen, more distinct on the 

 prothorax : antennas flavescent ; clypeus a little elongate in the 

 median part ; head with a transverse median carina ; head and 



