1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 679 



plainly sinuate laterally, clypeal carina not much arcuate, the carina 

 on the vertex very distinct and sub-crenulate ; clypeus and frontal 

 part deeply and unevenly foveolate punctate ; prothorax of the 

 normal shape laterally, but very plainly sinuate on each side in the 

 base the centre of which is itself also sinuate, the central part is 

 covered with nearly contiguous variolose punctures, and the sides and 

 anterior part with equally closely asperous ones, from the centre of 

 the disk to the base runs a longitudinal smooth line, and the supra 

 basal fold is not quite smooth ; scutellum closely punctate laterally ; 

 elytra of the usual shape and covered with simple punctures separated 

 by an interval equal to their own diameter ; pygidium finely but not 

 closely punctate ; pectus very villose ; all claws with the lower tooth 

 as large and as strongly hooked as the upper. 



This species should follow S. valida, Boh. (Cat. ii., 196), and is 

 not unlike in general facies small and slender examples of that 

 species, but it is at once distinguished by the much closer 

 punctuation of the prothorax, the strong sinuation of the base, and 

 especially by the emai'ginate lateral part of the clypeus. 



Length 16^ mm. ; width 8|- mm. 



Hab. Damaraland (Okahandja). 



SCHIZONYCHA MATABELENA, n. Sp. 



Plate XLVIIL, figs. 26, 27. 

 Pale testaceous, elytra sub-stramineous ; clypeus arcuate, blunt 

 and slightly emarginate in the centre, clypeal carina much raised, 

 quite arcuate, not interrupted, vertex with a plainly transverse entire 

 carina, the surface of the clypeus is covered with somewhat asperous 

 punctures, that of the head with plain granules separated by an 

 interval broader than their own size ; prothorax of the normal shape, 

 plainly and closely serrulate laterally, covered for two-thirds of the 

 length with slightly asperous or umbilicate punctures separated by 

 an interval equal to their own diameter, and bearing each a minute 

 greyish white hair, in the median posterior part these punctures are 

 not so closely set, and the border over the marginal part of the base 

 is smooth ; scutellum sparingly punctate, the punctures setigerous ; 

 elytra parallel, covered with umbilicate setigerous punctures 

 separated by an interval equal to their own diameter; pygidium 

 more closely punctate than the elytra ; penultimate abdominal 

 segment twice as broad as the one preceding; anterior tibiae bi- 

 dentate outwardly, but with a slight upper tooth ; upper tooth of all 

 the claws more slender and shorter than the lower, base of claws with 

 a small bifid tooth. 



