Classification of the Coleojjtcrotts famihj Dynastidm. 831) 



(^, capitis cornu longo gracili recurvato, fronte parce punctato ; 

 prothorace aiitice lato, lateribus paulo ilei)lanatis, antice medio 

 excavato loevi, dorso antice carinato, medio obtuse bideutato ; pro- 

 pygidio medio subtilissime transverse strigoso, linea mediana loevi ; 

 pygidio convexo, subtilissime punctato-rugoso, medio minus dense ; 

 tarsis anticis crassatis : 



$ , cajiitis cornu brevi, sed acuto, fronte fortiter punctato ; pro- 

 thorace antice magis angiistato, crebre punctato, lateribus ])ostice 

 fere parellelis; proj^ygidio dense fulvo-piloso ; pygidio medio vix 

 punctato, i^arum convexo. 



Long. 19-24 mm. Lat. max. 9'5-ll'5 mm. 



Hah. Nyasaland : Kambole, Fwambo. 



A series of specimens was collected between 1892 and 

 1895 and presented to the British Museum by Mr. W. A. 

 Nutt. 



The colour is a very deep shining chestnut and the 

 form narrow and parallel-sided. The horn of a well- 

 developed male is longer than in any other species of 

 Pycnoscliema known to me and very slender and strongly 

 curved. The female has a short sharply-pointed horn and 

 not, as in many of the species, a cusped carina. In the 

 type ( ^ ) the dorsal carina of the thorax is produced and 

 emargiuate in the middle, overhanging the anterior cavity, 

 but in a smaller male it is quite feeble. The propygidium 

 of the female is finely granulated and densely pubescent, 

 but that of the male is quite bare, with two finely and 

 transversely striated bands in the median part, 



Fi/cnoschcma jJaljMlis, sp, n, 



Castanea vel rufo-castanea, modice elongata, paiilo depressa, sat 

 nitida, supra grosse punctata, subtus longe fulvo-pilosa, metasterni 

 medio crebre punctato, lateribus subtiliter rugosis ; palj'orum 

 omnium articulis ultimis magnis : 



^, ca])ite punctato-rugoso, medio Iseviore, cornu brevi armato, 

 ante oculos sat late producto ; ])rothorace lato, supra undique grosse 

 jiunctato, antice retuso, margine supero carinato, medio obtusissime 

 biangulato, lateribus post medium valde rotuudato-angulatis, basi 

 leviter trisinuatis ; scutello minute j^unctato ; elytris post medium 

 Isevissime dilatatis, punctis grossis lateraliter irregularibus sat 

 densis, medio geminato-seriatis, punctulisque minutis interspersis ; 

 pygidio longe fulvo-hirto : 



9, capite rugoso, medio transverse carinato, carina medio vix 



