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the male, frontal carina very distinct, there is a small tubercle 

 equi-distant from the frontal carina and the basal part of the 

 head which is also distinctly carinate ; prothorax a little more 

 convex than any of the other South African species, one-third 

 or nearly so broader than long, very distinctly ampliate in the 

 middle ; scutellum reduced to a mere rudiment ; elytra one-fifth 

 longer than the prothorax, sub-gibbose along the suture past the 

 middle, and moderately convex, distinctly striate, intervals plane, 

 finely punctate, often also the sixth and seventh only are provided 

 with a small tubercle at the top of the declivity, which is ver}^ 

 short ; in the females that I have seen, these tubercles are nearly 

 obliterated, and rudimentary on the sixth and seventh intervals 

 only ; the supra-marginal carina ends also on a short spine in the 

 male, but not in the female ; the pygidium is scabroso-punctate, 

 and the under side very slightly pilose ; the metasternum has an 

 impressed line from the median part to the apex. 



Male : Clypeus a little elongate in the centre and not quite semi- 

 circular ; anterior tibi^ with four equi-distant outer teeth broadly 

 separated, mucro very long and arcuate inwardly, provided under- 

 neath with a serrated carina, posterior normal and without any 

 spine ; intermediate coxae swollen and having a sharp triangular 

 tooth near the knee ; posterior coxae with the inferior margin sub- 

 serrulate and having near the apex two incurved small teeth fronting 

 one another and nearly enclosing an open space. 



Female : A little more convex than the male ; clypeus more 

 pointed in front, punctures on the elytra deeper. 



Length 14-16 mm. ; width 8J-9 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls; Salisbury, Mazoe. 

 Buluwayo). Occurs also in Nyassaland and the Galla country. 



Onitis fulgidus, Klug, 



Berl. Monatsb. 1855, p. 652 ; Peter's Eeise, p. 223. 



Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 258. 



0. Klugi, Har. Berl. Zeit., 1859, p. 221. 



cuprcus, Har. Coleopt., Heft, viii., p. 10 ( ? ). 



Closely allied to 0. a^rarius, Har. ; the shape of the head, pro- 

 thorax, and elytra is the same, and the sculpture identical ; the sixth 

 and seventh intervals of the elytra are also tuberculate at apex, but 

 the third, fourth, and fifth have a short longitudinal series of large 

 granules, but the distinctive character is found in the shape of the 

 anterior tibiao, which are a little more falciform than in cerarius. 



