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head scabrous, clypeus more elongate in the male than in the 

 female, and slightly less emarginate in the former than in the 

 latter; prothorax one-fom-th wider than long, somewhat convex 

 and distinctly dehiscent in front in the female, closely granulose, 

 slightly impressed longitudinally in the middle, and having on each 

 side of the median impression two very short, smooth, lineiform, longi- 

 tudinal patches which are, however, not well defined and are some- 

 times absent; the two basal impressions are deep, and set close to one 

 another; scutellum small; elytra moderately plane, but sub-gibbose 

 at middle along the suture, as long as broad, or very little longer, 

 a little narrower at apex than at base, distinctly striate with the 

 suture, the second and third intervals and the basal part of the 

 fourth raised and sub-tectiform ; the intervals are slightly punctate ; 

 pygidium sub-punctate ; under side scabrous, clothed with long 

 flavous hairs, metathorax closely granulose. 



Male : Clypeus elongate, blunt and slightly emarginate at tip, 

 clypeal carina almost wanting, frontal carina very distinct, entire, 

 basal part sub-carinate, there is a small tubercle equi-distant from 

 the frontal carina and the base ; anterior tibiaB long, quadri-dentate 

 externally but with the two apical teeth set close to one another, 

 mucro long but not much inflexed, and having a distinct external 

 tooth at base, the carina beneath is sharp, serrulate from the base 

 to half the length, and they are fringed with hairs inwardly ; the 

 anterior femora have no teeth; the intermediate ones have the lower 

 edge deeply punctured but not serrulate, and the tibiae are very 

 distinctly crenulate ; the basal part of the posterior femora has two 

 or three short, closely set teeth, and the posterior tibiae are normal ; 

 the metasternum has a slightly impressed longitudinal line. 



Female : Clypeus a little less elongate than in the male and more 

 deeply emarginate, clypeal carina a little more distinct, frontal 

 carina and supra-basal tubercle similar ; prothorax more convex ; 

 shape and sculpture of elytra identical. 



Length 13-19 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna, Calvinia). 



Onitis .^ruginosus, Klug, 

 Monatsb. Ac. Berl, 1855, p. 652 ( 2 ). 

 0. cuprous, Har. Coleopt., Heft, viii., 18, p. 10 {^). 



Male : Bronze with a greenish sheen, elytra sub-opaque ; head 

 plicate on the clypeus which is a little produced in front, but 

 rounded at tip, and granulose on the vertex, clypeal carina long, 



