150 Transactions South African Pliilosoi^hical Society, [vol. xii. 



aculeate part of the clypeus is a little more distinctly truncate than 

 in either of .these two species. 



Length 15-18 mm ; width 9-9i mm . 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls, Middle Limpopo^ 

 ? Salisbury). 



(I have not been able to identify the two following species.) 



Onitis vicinus, Lansb., 

 Annal. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., 1875, p. 95. 



0. shoensis, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 254. 



" Oblongo-quadrate, bronze or bronze green ; head closely rugoso- 

 punctate, slightly smooth behind, clypeal carina distant from the 

 frontal part, short, frontal carina straight, broadly interrupted at 

 middle, obtusely tuberculate in the middle of the vertex, slightly 

 raised behind, smooth, gense slightly prominent in front ; prothorax 

 closely and moderately deeply punctate, the punctures being 

 sometimes confluent in the centre, sides hardly punctate, mode- 

 rately ampliate, rounded but somewhat angular at base ; scutellum 

 smooth, cordiform ; elytra slightly striate, the striae crenato-punctate,. 

 the intervals plane and sub-rugulose ; pygidium smooth, sub-convex ; 

 under side granulate, sparingly clothed with flavous setae ; meta- 

 sternum and abdomen smooth, the former sub-sulcate in front and 

 plane behind ; anterior femora obsoletely carinate underneath. 



Male : Clypeus sub-truncate at apex ; anterior margin of anterior 

 femora sharply dentate beyond the middle ; anterior tibiae slender^ 

 quadri-dentate internally, mucro recurved, short, thick ; posterior 

 femora slightly emarginate at base and armed after the middle with 

 a moderately large tooth. 



Female : Clypeus slightly rounded at tip ; femora non-spiny^ 

 tibiae shorter than in the male. 



Length 16-17 mm. ; width 9J-9| mm. 



Hab. Caffraria." 



This species comes probably in the vicinity of 0. sphinx, but I 

 have not yet seen it. 



Onitis eothi, Lansb., 

 Annal. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., 1875, p. 101. 



** Oblongo-quadrate, bright bronze, very shining, greenish under- 

 neath, coppery on the head which is obsoletely rugoso-punctate 

 behind and less so in front, clypeal carina moderately broad. 



