1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoiitera of South Africa. 155" 



ricHTOw, and some of tlieni are tectifonn ; pygidium vertical, 

 triangular ; legs robust, anterior tibiae quadri-dentate outwardly, 

 falcate and strongly mucronate at tip and without apical spur or 

 trace of tarsi in the male, normal and with short tarsi in the female ; 

 prosternum produced in a long furcate process between the coxae in 

 the two South African species ; mesosternum wdde and divided from 

 the metasternum by a distinct transverse carina ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae as in Onitis, but the upper outer carina is slightly 

 obliterated in the intermediate tibiae and not very conspicuous in the 

 posterior. 



The genus is represented in the circa-Mediterranean region,. 

 India, and Africa (Senegal and German East Africa). 



Key to the Species. 



Prothorax punctured, and with raised lines forming an irregular 

 lozenge at middle ; elytra with the intervals finely punctured . . lioplosternus. 



Prothorax granulose and covered with short irregular, con- 

 spicuously raised lines ; intervals of elytra sot with equi-distant 

 shining tubercles scahrosus. 



Cheironitis hoplosternus, Har., 



Plate XXXIV., fig. 11 a. 



Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 83. 



Bronze green on the prothorax and on the under side, elytra 

 testaceous w^ith the costae green, head with the exception of the 

 vertex and lateral part of the prothorax whitish yellow, legs greenish, 

 testaceous ; clypeus widely but not deeply emarginate in the centre,, 

 edges dark green, slightly recurved, genae distinctly projecting, there 

 is a short median clypeal carina shorter in the male than in the 

 female, a frontal arcuate one connected laterally with the basal one 

 which is sinuate and as much raised as the frontal one, the clypeus 

 is punctate, and the space on the vertex between the two carinae is 

 scabrose ; prothorax very convex, marginate all round, ampliated in 

 the anterior part, declivous m front, faintly impressed longitudinally 

 in the median part, deeply and closely punctured, and having in the 

 median part some raised, smooth lines somewhat lozenge-shaped, and 

 two longitudinal, parallel impressions in the middle of the base ; 

 scutellum long, triangular ; elytra attenuate laterally from the base 

 towards the apex, deeply sinuate laterally, moderately plane, but 

 with the suture raised, they are finely striate with the intervals 



