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deeper, and the outer angle of the posterior tibiae is also a little 

 elongated. 



Length 23-24 mm. ; width 13-14 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Manica). 



Onitis mniszechi, Lansb., 

 Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1875, p. 62. 



'^Oblongo-ovate, black, moderately shining; head triangular, dense, 

 covered with rugose granules, no clypeal carina, frontal one entire, 

 sub-arcuate, raised, basal part moderately raised, provided with a 

 sharp tubercle, genge somewhat prominent, rounded ; prothorax 

 moderately large, rugose in the anterior part, punctate behind, 

 sulcate longitudinally in the middle, the sulcus granulate, base 

 marginate, basal impressions small, not deep, sides roundly ampli- 

 ated in front, and straight behind with the posterior angles blunted; 

 scutellum shining, cordiform ; elytra elongate, striate, striae dis- 

 appearing behind, intervals finely punctulate ; pygidium strongly 

 punctured ; under side shining, granulate, clothed with fulvous 

 hairs ; metasternum with a longitudinal smooth carina ; median 

 part of abdomen smooth. 



Length 28 mm. ; wddth 14 mm. 



Male unknown. 



Female : Clyx^eus produced in front, truncate, femora short, 

 punctate, tibiae ciliate with fulvous hairs. 



Hah. Damara land. One single female example from the Mniszech 

 collection. It is easily recognised by the absence of clypeal carina, 

 the rugose punctuation of the prothorax, the longitudinal carina of 

 the metasternum, and the size, which is nearly equal to that of small 

 examples of 0. tridcns, which it resembles also in general appear- 

 ance." 



Onitis nubiensis, Lansb., 

 Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1875, p. 63. 



" Oblongo-quadrate, black, moderately shining ; head covered with 

 rugose granules ; clypeus triangular, rounded in front and having no 

 clypeal carina, frontal carina arcuate, entire, very much raised in the 

 middle, basal margin of the vertex, which is also raised in the middle, 

 interrupted by a sharp tubercle separate from it and situated a little 

 in front of it, genae straight, slightly prominent in the anterior 

 part ; prothorax closely granulate, but less closely at the base, 

 faintly grooved longitudinally, base marginate, produced a little 



