1900.] Catalogue of tlic Coleoj^tera of South Africa. 151 



situated in the middle, frontal carina broadly interrupted, vertex with 

 a median tubercle, posterior part a little raised, smooth, immarginate,. 

 genae rounded ; prothorax sparingly and not deeply punctured,, 

 having a median longitudinal smooth line, and the sides also smooth, 

 base immarginate, basal impressions large, rounded, sides moderately 

 dilated, rounded behind and sub-angular ; scutellum cordiform ;. 

 elytra slightly striate, striae obsoletely punctate, intervals plane, fifth 

 and sixth raised together, seventh stria slightly impressed ; pygidium 

 sub-convex, smooth, sub-carinate longitudinally ; under side granulate, 

 clothed with fulvous hairs, abdomen smooth at middle, metasternum 

 plane, anterior femora carinate underneath. 



Male : Clypeus emarginate, vertical tubercle transverse ; prothorax 

 broader in front than that of the female, margin of elytra sub- 

 crenulate behind ; anterior femora with a spine on each side at 

 middle, tibiae slender, contorted, tri-dentate beneath, mucro elongate, 

 strongly incurved, and with long, ciliate hairs at tip ; posterior 

 femora with an inner strong erect tooth, connected with another 

 very small one ; trochanters spinose. 



Female : Clypeus projecting, truncate, black in front, tubercle on 

 the vertex of the head larger than in the male, and conical; pro- 

 thorax narrower, femora non-spiny, tibiae shorter. 



Length 16-18 mm. ; width 8-9 mm. 



" 0. Bothi resembles 0. sphinx, and the metasternum is also- 

 completely granulate. It differs, however, by the armature of the 

 femora and legs, and the absence of groove in the metasternum. It 

 is easily distinguishable by the fold produced by the continuation of 

 the humeral tubercle on the fifth and sixth intervals. The male is 

 more particularly distinguished by the position of the anterior 

 spines in the anterior femora where they are placed exactly oppo- 

 site one another and turned outwardly. The punctuation of the 

 prothorax is much less pronounced than in the other metallic 

 species." 



Hah. Caffraria, Abyssinia, teste Lansberge. 



Gen. TAPEINOPTEEUS, Lansb. 

 Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1875, p. 15. 



" Labial palpi with the second joint much larger than the firsts 

 thick, densely villose, third not distinct ; head broad, emarginate 

 at tip, transversely carinate, tuberculate on the vertex, genae hardly 

 divided from the clypeus ; prothorax moderately convex, non- 

 marginate at base, where it is bi-foveolate ; scutellum distinct ; elytra 



