Goleoptera from South Africa. 157 



0. insigni.^', n. sp. 



Head and prothorax bright metallic-green, palpi, antenna;, and 

 tarsi flavescent, elytra teddish-yello-n-, underside dark grey, legs 

 black ; clypeus a little elongated in front ; head broadly and 

 closely punctured, -svith a median transverse raised line in both 

 sexes, (^ with a very long horn, straight for three-fourths of 

 the length, and slightly curved backward towards the tip, $ with 

 a straight transverse carina ; prothorax very closely and deeply 

 punctured, glabrous— in the (^ deeply excavated in the median part 

 from the apex to a little short of the base, dehiscent in the 

 anterior part, and with the sides of the excavation raised in the 

 median part in two broad triangular and conspicuous tubercles — 

 in the 5 there is no median longitudinal excavation, the anterior 

 part is, a little more declivous, and in the anterior part there is a 

 transverse ridge not broader than the occipital one ; elytra finely 

 striate, with the intervals glabrov-s and closely, although not 

 deepl}' punctured. Length il, width .') mm. 



Hah, Zambezia (Salisbury). 



0. gemmeus, n. sp. 

 Head and prothorax bright metallic-green, with short pubescence; 

 elytra flavous, with the suture black, and a broad band of the same 

 colour, extending from near the humeral angle to the suture, which 

 it joins at a short distance from the apex ; head broadly and closely 

 punctured, with a distinct transverse ridge, and behind it, a highly 

 raised slightly shorter lamina ; prothorax very finely granulated in 

 the anterior part, closely punctured behind, declivous anteriorly, 

 bi-tuberculate above the declivity, the tubercles blunt and slightly 

 diverging, impressed longitudinally from the median part to the 

 base, the impression with a narrow median groove ; elytra striate, 

 intervals deeply and closely punctured, each puncture bearing a 

 short hair, thus making the intervals thickly pubescent ; pygidium 

 very hairy; underside and legs piceous-black. Male unknown. 

 Length 7, width 4 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



ORPHNIDES. 



Gen. Orphnus, Macl. 



0. zamhezianus, n. sp. 

 Brick-red, shining, head and clypeus infuscate ; head punctulate 

 anterior margin of the clypeus bearing a long sharp horn, slightly 



