118 Transactions Soutli African Philosopliical Society, [vol. xii. 



and the second, fourth, and seventh intervals; pygidmm vertical 

 and having in the centre a triangular squamose carina, fasciculate 

 at apex and at each basal angle ; metasternum finely aciculate and 

 densely squamose like the remainder of the under side ; anterior tibiae 

 of (^ long, a little sinuate at base, strongly falcate at tip, where it is 

 produced in a long mucro beyond the apical outer sj^ur ; and the' 

 outer teeth are very far apart ; in the $ the anterior tibiae are not 

 elongate nor falcate, and the outer teeth although not close to one 

 another are not so far apart. . 



Length 9-10^- mm. ; width 5-5J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Knysna, East London, Graham's Town) ; 

 Natal (Frere, Newcastle, Estcourt, Eshowe) ; Transvaal (Lyden- 

 burg). 



This species is recorded from Senegal and Abyssinia, and I have 

 seen some examples from the Galla country. 



Gen. ONITIS, Fabric, 



Plate XXXIX., fig. 30. 



Entom. Syst. Suppl., 1798, p. 25. 



Mentum concave, rounded laterally, emarginate at tip, very densely 

 hairy, and broader than long, first joint of the labial palpi half as 

 broad as long, nearly straight inwardly, produced diagonally out- 

 wardly, second joint longer than broad, a little ampliate at middle, 

 truncate at tip, set with long, rigid setae, third one subulate, narrow 

 and one -third the length of the second ; lobes of the ligula broad, 

 membranaceous, briefly setulose inwardly, and not as long as the 

 labial palpi ; first joint of maxillary palpi very short, triangular, 

 second broad, triangular, third not quite as broad as the second, and 

 shaped as a truncate cone, last sub-fusiform, as long or a little longer 

 than the two preceding, slightly emarginate laterally outwardly and 

 impressed longitudinally there ; maxillae broad, long or moderately 

 long ; apical lobe very broad, inner one very small ; antennae nine- 

 jointed, basal joint nearly as long as all the others, club moderately 

 broad, ultimate joint flat and smaller than the first which is cupuli- 

 form ; head with a distinct clypeus, either semicircular, emarginate 

 at middle, rostrate or aculeate at middle, and bearing often a small 

 transverse clypeal carina, at about the median part of the head there 

 is another and more raised frontal carina sometimes interrupted at 

 middle, and the vertical margin is also raised and sometimes 

 carinate, the genae have a very distinctly carinate suture and 

 project beyond the line of the clypeus, the eyes are large, completely 

 divided by the canthus of the cheeks, the upper surface showing is 



