124 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



distinct all over the surface, broadly but not deeply grooved longi- 

 tudinally in the centre from the median basal impressions to 

 the anterior declivity ; scutellum long, sharply triangular ; elytra 

 sub-parallel, finely striate with the intervals nearly smooth, plane, 

 except the fourth, which is tectiform for half the length, the basal 

 part of the fifth intervals is nearly as much raised as the humeral 

 callus, the suture is raised, and the whole surface is glabrous ; 

 under side almost hairless ; metasternum granulose ; pygidium finely 

 aciculate. 



Male : Clypeus emarginate in front ; clypeal carina sharp, extending 

 over one-half of the width, frontal carina curved, slightly tuberculate 

 in the centre, non-interrupted, curving laterally and uniting with a 

 transverse, slightly supra-basal ridge of equal height, genae projecting 

 distinctly ; anterior tibiae without spines, prosternum with a short, 

 broadly divaricating, furciform recurved process without any stalk 

 under the coxae ; anterior tibiae not much incurved and with the 

 inner mucro slanting inwardly, sharply carinate underneath from 

 base to apex, with the carina slightly dentiform at middle, inter- 

 mediate femora and tibise without spine and normal, posterior 

 femora with a sharp, nearly vertical tooth in the lower margin set 

 nearer to the apex than to the base ; pygidium with a small, central 

 tubercle, and sparsely aciculate ; upper edge of the first abdominal 

 segment distinctly aculeate close to the apex of the episternon of the 

 metathorax. 



Female unknown. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Prieska). 



Most of the insects received from this extremely dry and arid 

 locality are, as a rule, very dwarfed ; it is therefore quite possible 

 that the present species, which is most likely only a straggler, wdll 

 be found to be of larger size further north. 



Onitis bohemanni, Lansb., 



Plate XXXIV., figs. 1, la. 



Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1875, p. 58. 



Dark bronze-black on head and prothorax ; elytra dark green. 



Male : Head longer than broad, attenuate from the genae to the 



apex which is truncate and slightly sinuate at tip, gena3 projecting 



and sharply angular at the suture with the clypeus which is truncate, 



clypeal carina sharp, transverse, interrupted at middle, frontal carina 



entire, very much raised, and strongly arcuate, basal carina sinuate, and 



as much raised as the frontal one ; the whole surface is covered with 



