1900.] Catalogue of tJic ColcoiHera of Soitlh Africa. 129 



owing to the incurved miicro being longer, and are besides very 

 distinctly quadri-dentate outwardly and have between the knee and 

 the basal tooth a fifth tooth sharper and longer than the basal one ; 

 the carina on the under side is a little more conspicuously serrate ; 

 the intermediate femora have two very distinct teeth set close to one 

 another and nearly vertical near the apex, in the posterior ones 

 the two apical teeth are similar but stronger. 



Female unknown. 



Length 18 mm.; width 12 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



Onitis westeemanni, Lansb., 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum, viii., 1886, p. 77. 



'' Bronze-green, shining, very briefly hairy ; head granular, clypeus 

 black at apex, slightly produced and bearing in the middle an 

 arcuate carinule, frontal carina somewhat obliterated at middle, 

 vertex tuberculate at middle, and with the margin of the occiput 

 acute ; prothorax aciculate and granular and having in the middle 

 some areolets the bottom of each of which is arcuate, sides roundly 

 ampliate in front, sinuate behind, and without any posterior angles ; 

 elytra sub-sericeous, finely striate, with the dorsal intervals convex, 

 and those on the sides plane, and having each two series of punc- 

 tures ; these intervals are finely plicate in the neighbourhood of the 

 scutellum. 



Male : Tubercle of the vertex of the head sub- transverse, sixth 

 and seventh intervals on the elytra tisiberculate at the apex ; anterior 

 tibiae crenulate beneath, intermediate femora tri-dentate behind, the 

 first tooth being in the trochanter, the spiniform second one in the 

 middle, and the third one, which is triangular, is situated near the 

 apex; tibiae crenulate underneath, suddenly dilated into a quadrangle 

 past the middle ; posterior femora provided with a crenulate lamina 

 and two spines forming together a letter O. 



Female : Clypeus totally black, carinae more raised, the frontal 

 one being entire, tubercle on the vertex conical ; elytra sub-tubercu~ 

 late at apex ; legs simple. 



Length 14-16 mm. 



Very near 0. mrarius, Har., with which it has in common all 

 the distinctive characters, but it cannot be mistaken for it owing to 

 the quadrate dilatation of the intermediate tibiae. The colour is also 

 greener than in any of the other species belonging to this group." - 



Hab. Zambesi Eiver. 



I have not seen this species. 



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