1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 163 



edges of the abdominal segments ; plane, distinctly striate, the striae 

 are punctulate, and the intervals nearly plane on the disk, but 

 slightly convex laterally, and very finely aciculate, the lateral 

 flavous band is very broad laterally, but the apical one is narrow ; 

 pygidium punctulate, glabrous ; the under side and legs are nearly 

 glabrous ; the prosternum is produced into a broadly triangular pro- 

 cess, strongly carinate at tip between the coxae, and impinging far 

 on the apical part of the metathorax, which has a deeply impressed 

 median line reaching from apex to base, is smooth in the middle and 

 very broadly but not deeply punctured laterally ; legs and tibiae com- 

 pressed, first joint of posterior tarsi moderately dilated. 



Length 13-16 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg), Southern Ehodesia 

 (Victoria Falls). Occurs also in German East Africa and Southern 

 ,Somaliland. 



Oniticellus planatus, Casteln., 



Plate XXXVIIL, fig. 11. 



Hist. Natur. d. Ins., ii., 1840, p. 91. 



Black, smooth, shining, elytra slightly iridescent ; head broader 

 than long, clypeus very slightly emarginate in front, genes not pro- 

 jecting beyond the line of the clypeus, suture of the genae carinate 

 as far as the eyes, surface of the head without any carina or impres- 

 sion in either sex ; prothorax quite smooth and impunctate, plane, a 

 little attenuate and rounded laterally in the anterior part, but some- 

 what parallel laterally, and with the base nearly straight ; above the 

 median part of the base there is a very short, longitudinal impressed 

 line ; scutellum small ; elytra a little narrower at base than the pro- 

 thorax, sub-parallel but a little attenuate behind, not sinuate laterally 

 behind the humeral part, and covering the episterna, but not entirely 

 the edges of the abdominal segments ; they are plane but deeply 

 impressed behind the humeral callus, distinctly punctato-striate 

 with the intervals smooth and glabrous except at the apex where 

 there is a distinct fringe of greyish setae ; pygidium finely acicu- 

 late and opaque ; under side glabrous but for a few hairs on the 

 sides of the prothorax and on the anterior femora ; the prosternum 

 is produced into a broad triangular process very sharp between the 

 coxae but with the basal part not overlapping the metathorax which 

 is smooth in the centre, but closely sub-foveate laterally, and has a 

 very faint median longitudinal impressed line ; posterior tarsi a little 

 dilated, basal one longer than the three following. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



