1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 121 



not carinate laterally above the eyes, and having a basal, arcuate, 

 only slightly raised keel; antennae 10-jointed, joints sixth and seventh 

 short, compressed, eighth, ninth, and tenth forming a club not quite 

 as long as the pedicel, laminate and somewhat dilated at the tip, 

 apical joint somewhat shorter than the one preceding ; prothorax 

 nearly twice as broad as long, slightly convex, and with the posterior 

 angles moderately rounded ; scutellum sub-ogival ; elytra parallel, 

 moderately convex near the base, barely covering the base of the 

 propygidium ; pygidium sub-vertical, slightly convex ; intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae without an outer oblique ridge ; anterior ones 

 with an inner spur, and tri-dentate outwardly, hind spurs somewhat 

 slender and moderately long ; hind tarsi somewhat bristly under- 

 neath ; claws long and having underneath a very small, juxta-basal 

 vertical tooth. 



The only species included in this genus is a very singular insect 

 which, unlike the other South African Pachypodini, has strongly 

 •costate elytra, with the intervals filled with appressed, distinctly 

 squamose hairs. The female is unknown. I have seen the type 

 of the genus which is in the Schonherr Collection in the Stockholm 

 Museum. 



ONOCHiETA PORCATA, Swartz, 



Schonh. Syn. Insect., i., 3 ; Append., p. 87. 



Male : Piceous, club of antennae slightly reddish-brown ; head, 

 prothorax, pectus, and abdomen clothed with a somewhat light 

 fulvous pubescence longer on the sides and base of the thorax, 

 and also on the pectus ; intervals of elytra filled with somewhat 

 long, scale-like greyish fulvous scales ; clypeus separated from the 

 frontal part by an ill-defined, transverse suture obliterated in the 

 centre, and like the frontal part it is covered with deep, round punc- 

 tures from each of which springs a short hair, longer, however, on the 

 frontal part the basal ridge of which is not very sharp ; prothorax 

 plainly ampliated laterally in the middle, deeply punctured, with the 

 punctures larger and less closely set in the anterior part, and having 

 a longitudinal impression in the median part only of the disk ; 

 scutellum moderately closely punctured, except in the apical part ; 

 elytra parallel, not much convex, but somewhat abruptly convex 

 behind, strongly quadri-costate on each side, and with the suture 

 also highly raised, the punctures are nearly smooth and shining, 

 and the intervals, as well as the outer margin, are covered 

 with scale-like appressed hairs springing from somewhat shallow 

 punctures ; propygidium aciculate ; pygidium punctulate, clothed, 

 like the abdomen, with appressed hairs, and having a fringe of 



