0.] Catalogue of the Goleoptcra of Sotcth Africa. Ill 



ipex, mucro elongate ; posterior margin of the intermediate femora 



ing underneath a crenulate carina ending before the apex in a 



rp tooth, and obtusely dentate at apex ; tibiae slender at base, 



light, curved from there and suddenly narrowly dilated; posterior 



lora sub-dentate in the upper margin at middle, and emarginate 



n there, lower margin crenulate underneath, tibiae gradually 



i;ted from base to apex, the dilatation not being great. 



female : Clypeus more suddenly rounded at tip than in the male ; 



lora simple, tibise shorter, intermediate ones straight. 



jength 18-23 mm. ; width 10-13 mm. 



lab. Mozambique, and Caffraria, teste Lansberge. Occurs also 



\byssinia. 



?his species is distinguishable from 0. robuskis, Boh., by the 



sence of a clypeal carina and the incision on the anterior part 



he hind femora of the male. 



Onitis dispak, Pering., 



Plate XXXVI., fig. 31. 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 155. 



)ark metallic green or bronze green, moderately shining; head 

 nular, clypeus with a short carina, frontal carina raised, nearly 

 light, basal carina not much raised and having in the middle a 

 irt but distinct elongate tubercle somewhat grooved transversely ; 

 thorax a little attenuate laterally in front and not much behind 

 the male, moderately convex and covered with deep, closely set 

 ictures and some fine granules on the two basal impressions which 

 not deep ; the median part of the base is carinate like the sides 

 I the anterior part ; scutellum moderately long and very sharp ; 

 tra a little convex, sinuate laterally at some distance from the 

 >ulder, humeral callus not very prominent, striae narrow, intervals 

 ne, finely and regularly punctured ; pygidium scarcely punctulate, 

 tasternum distinctly granular and having an ill-defined hollowed 

 dian longitudinal line. 



yiale : Anterior tibiae slender, nearly straight, quadri-dentate 

 iWardly, the teeth being blunt, mucro short, stumpy and densely 

 ate at base, carina underneath simple ; femora simple, inter- 

 diate tibiae normal, simple, posterior ones a little compressed and 

 ih the outer angle produced into a long, flat unciform process nearly 

 long as the inner spur and curving slightly inwards (fig. 31). 

 Female : A little more robust than the male, the clypeus is trans- 

 •sely plicate, the tubercle on the vertex of the head is stronger; 

 J intervals on the elytra are slightly coriaceous and the punctures 



