1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 133 



towards the base ; it is convex, marginate in front, on the sides, and 

 between the two basal impressions which are deep, and shghtl^^ 

 slanting towards each other, the whole surface is covered with deep 

 punctures moderately closely set ; scutellum very distinct, a little 

 rounded at tip ; elytra sub-parallel, slightly sinuate laterally a little 

 before the middle, a little convex along the suture, narrowly striate 

 with the intervals nearly plane, and slightly coriaceous ; the ninth 

 interval is deeply foveato-punctate along the supra-marginal carina 

 in the male, but not in the female ; pygidium a little convex, im- 

 punctate ; metasternum with a median shallow grooved line. 



Male : Clypeus not emarginate at tip, but not quite round ; 

 anterior tibiae long, a little incurved and with the mucro slanting, 

 sharply quadri-dentate outwardly, and having underneath three or 

 four equi-distant and very distinct teeth, femora having on the 

 anterior carina a truncate tooth situated nearer to the apex than to 

 the base ; intermediate femora carinate beneath but simple, tro- 

 chanters slightly spinose, tibiae normal ; posterior femora with a 

 sharp, long, nearly vertical, slightly bent tooth on the lower margin, 

 not laminate on either side (fig. 13) ; posterior tibiae very slender 

 from the base to about the median part, and ampliated from there. 



Female : Clypeus aculeate, sub-truncate at tip ; supra-marginal 

 carina of elytra not foveolato-punctate laterally ; legs simple. 



Length 16-19 mm. ; width 9-llJ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Graham's Town, Knysna, Kim- 

 berley), Natal (Durban, Estcourt, Newcastle), Southern Ehodesia 

 (Buluwayo, Salisbury, Enkeldoorn), Orange Free State (Bloem- 

 fontein), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Onitis viridulus, Bohem., 



Plate XXXIV., fig. 14. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 253. 



0. pecuarius, Lansb., Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1875, p. 32. 



Bronze, with a faint greenish tinge on the elytra ; the description 

 of 0. crenatus applies to this species in almost every point, except 

 that the clypeal carina is situated a little nearer the apex in both 

 sexes, and that the tooth of the posterior femora has inwardly a 

 sharp lamina abruptly truncate near the trochanters which are 

 distinctly spinose (fig. 14) ; the supra-marginal carina of the elytra 

 is not foveolato-punctate inwardly, except very occasionally, and 

 then only in the posterior part, and the anterior tibiae of the male 

 have sometimes five teeth underneath. 



Length 17-20 mm. ; width 9|-11|^ mm. 



