1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 137 



arcuate, distinct, and equi-distant from the tubercle on the vertex 

 and from the apex, frontal carina interrupted in the centre and 

 having immediately behind it, but not connected with it, a narrow, 

 transverse tubercle, basal carina not arcuate, and not quite as 

 much raised as the frontal one ; prothorax attenuate diagonally 

 for one- third of the length, and rounded from there to the basal 

 angle which is very distinct, marginate laterally and in front, 

 but not at base, and covered with scabrose, extremely closely set 

 punctures, basal impressions moderately deep and more finely 

 granular, in the centre of the disk there is a depressed line disap- 

 pearing in the anterior part ; scutellum invisible ; elytra depressed, 

 but with the suture raised, not at all sinuate laterally, and a little 

 ampliate at middle, humeral callus distinct at the base only of the 

 sixth and seventh intervals, the strige are narrow, and the intervals 

 plane and punctulate ; pygidium sparsely granulose ; metasternum 

 granulose laterally and in the anterior part ; anterior tibiae moderately 

 slender, a little incurved, mucro sharp and distinct inwardly, quadri- 

 dentate outwardly, but with the basal tooth small and very blunt, 

 carina underneath sharp but neither serrate nor dentate ; inter- 

 mediate and posterior femora sharply and closely serrate underneath, 

 and roughly punctured ; tibiae simple, normal. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 7 J mm. 



Female : Clypeus a little elongate, sub-truncate, legs shorter. 



Eesembles in general appearance 0. . disjKcr, but it is much 

 smaller, and is at once differentiated by the interrupted frontal 

 carina as well as by the armature of the legs. 



I have seen one example only from the Zambesi Eiver, w^hich 

 is certainly not convex, but otherwise it answers very well to 

 Lansberge's description. 



Onitis licitus, n. spec. 



Male : Bronze green, shining ; clypeus elongate, emarginate at 

 tip, genae not projecting, anterior part closely punctured, posterior 

 part granulose, clypeal carina obsolete, frontal carina entire, slightly 

 arcuate, vertex sub-carinate, a small tubercle midway between the 

 frontal and the vertical ridge ; prothorax manifestly convex, closely 

 covered with short, elongate granules, and having in the centre a 

 faint longitudinal impression, and at about the middle an incon- 

 spicuous smooth line, the basal impressions are set moderately close 

 to one another, and are triangular ; scutellum small, acuminate ; 

 elytra a little attenuate laterally from base to apex, a little sinuate 

 past the shoulders, then slightly ampliate past the middle, and 



