1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 139 



crenulate for nearly half the length, the anterior and intermediate 

 femora have no teeth, the intermediate tibiae are deeply emarginate 

 inwardly at base, and the apical part of the carinate lower margin 

 of the posterior femora is serrate (fig. 6a) ; the whole of the meta- 

 sternum is covered with scabrose punctures, and in the centre is a 

 rounded raised line reaching from apex to base. 



I am not sure of the identity of the female. Lansberge says that 

 the clypeus is longer, but rounded, the tubercle on the vertex of 

 the head is more raised, all the femora are without spines, and 

 the tibiae are shorter. 



Length 20-22 mm. ; width 11 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Onitis caffer, Bohem., 



Plate XXXIV., fig. 6. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 251. 



Black or piceous black, shining ; clypeus a little elongate, slightly 

 emarginate at tip in both sexes, and with the edges slightly recurved, 

 genae hardly projecting beyond the line of the clypeus, clypeal carina 

 slightly arcuate, better defined in the female than in the male, 

 frontal carina straight, united laterally with the carina of the base 

 which is very little raised, between the frontal carina and the basal 

 one there is a small median tubercle, the clypeus is transversely 

 plicate and the vertex deeply punctured ; prothorax short, convex, 

 covered in the median part of the disk with very closely set, very 

 elongate, depressed granules replaced by punctures alongside the 

 base, it is marginate all round, has a median longitudinal impressed 

 line, better defined in the male, and two deep, broad impressions 

 in the centre of the base ; elytra short, glabrous, and having a very 

 convex look owing to the sutural part being much raised a little past 

 the median part, slightly sinuate laterally at some distance from the 

 shoulder, distinctly and narrowly striate with the intervals raised 

 but not tectiform, covered with ill-defined, small impressions neither 

 deep nor regular enough to be called punctures ; pygidium sub- 

 punctate and with a few bristles in the anterior part ; metathorax 

 deeply punctured. 



Male : Tubercle of clypeus very distinct, but not as much raised 

 as in the female ; anterior femora without spine but with both edges 

 very strongly developed yet not deeply grooved, anterior tibiae long, 

 quadri-dentate outwardly, incurved slightly at tip but with the mucro 

 long, strongly incurved, and having underneath at the base a small 

 vertical tooth at the junction of the mucro with the apical outer 



