680 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Length 9 nun. ; width 5 mm. 

 Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Plunitree). 



This species, which should come near or after ,S'. puerilis (Cat. ii., 

 p. 209), is easily distinguished by the genital armature of the 3 ■ 



SCHIZONTCHA HOWICKIANA. 



Plate XLVIIL, figs. 24, 25. 



Very closely allied to S. nninixta (Cat. ii., p. 230) but the umbilicate 

 punctures of the head and clypeus are a little more closely set, the 

 median sinuation of the anterior margin is not so strong ; the 

 sculpture of the prothorax is similar but there is a superbasal fold, 

 although a non-conspicuous one; the elytra and the abdominal 

 segments are alike, and so are the claws of the tarsi ; but the 

 antennal club, although well developed, is shorter than that of 

 S. immixta, and the shape of the genital armature greatly differs. 



Length llf mm. ; width G mm. 



Hab. Natal (Howick). 



SCHIZONYCHA LITIGIOSA, 11. sp. 



Plate XLVIIL, figs. 28, 29. 



Testaceous red with the elytra paler, antennal club flavous, 

 moderately long in the male; clypeus very blunt, nearly straight in 

 front in both sexes, clypeal carina very little arcuate, and frontal 

 suture not very deep, vertex without ridge; both clypeus and frontal 

 part with transverse, asperous punctures ; prothorax of normal 

 shape, the anterior part covered with small, contiguous cicatricose 

 punctures becoming almost granular towards the sides, these 

 punctures are more remote in the posterior part, and there is a 

 distinct supra-basal smooth fold; elytra sub-parallel in the^ , slightly 

 less so in the ? , somewhat coriaceous but covered with small, very 

 briefly setigerous punctures separated from each other by an interval 

 broader than the puncture itself ; penultimate abdominal segment 

 not broader than the antepenultimate in both sexes; anterior tibisB 

 plainly tri-dentate on each side, tarsi moderately long, upper claw 

 longer and stronger than the lower one. The shape of the genital 

 armature resembles somewhat that of S. ovarrvpoana, which, however, 

 belongs to another section of the genus. It should follow S. ncglccta 

 (Cat. ii., p. 222). 



Length 13-14 mm. ; width 6^-7 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Nylstroom). 



