1900.J Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 165 



Oriqualand West, Knysna, Somerset East), Natal (Frere, Durban, 

 Maritzburg) , Transvaal (Rustenburg). 



It is also recorded from Angola and Senegal (Kolbe). 



Oniticellus africanus, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft. xL, 1873, p. 105. 



Pale testaceous with a metallic tinge and variegated on the head, 

 prothorax and elytra v^ith small, irregular, dark green patches ; head 

 punctulate, clypeus diagonal laterally, nearly truncate at tip but for 

 a slight emargination, gente projecting conspicuously, in the male 

 there is a slightly raised median ridge, a faint depression behind it, 

 and the vertex is distinctly carinate, in the female there is a trans- 

 verse carina following the shape of the edge of the clypeus and set 

 very close to it, and another triangular one reaching both genge, this 

 second ridge is not quite a median one, the occipital impression, 

 and also the ridge on the vertex are similar in both sexes ; prothorax 

 very convex in the anterior part, plane above, sub- vertical laterally, 

 slightly grooved longitudinally at middle, covered with broad but not 

 deep, nor closely set punctures, the dark green patches on the 

 middle are sometimes in the shape of a more or less defined lozenge, 

 but there are nearly always two median, well-defined, small, tri- 

 angular shining spots, one on each side of the longitudinal impres- 

 sion ; scutellum very long and sharp ; elytra hardly longer than 

 the prothorax, sub-parallel, not strongly sinuate laterally but with 

 the episternon of the metasternum and the edges of the abdominal 

 segments conspicuously projecting, the suture and the second and 

 fifth intervals are raised, the latter more conspicuously than the 

 former, and ends in an apical green, shining callus, the other intervals 

 are plane and very briefly setigerous, but the apical margin is fringed 

 with long fascicles of hairs ; prosternum slightly knobby between 

 the coxae, mesosternum broad and with a sharp tubercle at apex, 

 metasternum punctulate, and slightly carinate lengthways from 

 apex to base ; pygidium vertical and with a small, median, shining 

 tubercle. 



Length 9-11 mm. ; width 4-5 J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, 

 Clanwilliam, Somerset East, Kimberley, Queen's Town), Natal 

 (Newcastle, Frere, Durban), Transvaal (Lydenburg, Potchef- 

 stroom). 



This species is extremely closely connected with 0. pallipes of 

 Southern Europe, Egypt, Syria, and Morocco, and which Kolbe 



