178 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. XII. 
the two species mentioned ; the shape of the claws is the same as in 
S. namaqua, but the elytra are more finely aciculate, and are also 
paler ; the genital armature of the two species are nearly similar, but 
the valves are more robust in S. boschimana, and the basal scooped- 
out space is strongly angular, and much less so and also more sloping 
in S. namaqua. 
Length 18-21 mm.; width 10-12 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland). 
SPARRMANNIA FUSCIVENTRIS, Boh., 
Ins. Cafix., u., p80. 
I have only seen Boheman’s type of this species, which is a 
female, and almost similar to S. boschimana, the clypeus is re- 
gularly semicircular from side to side, and the apical spurs of the 
hind tibiz are, especially the upper one, more broadly marginate 
than in either S. namaqua or S. boschimana. 
Length 20 mm.; width 10 mm. 
Hab. Neighbourhood of Limpopo River, teste Bohem. 
SPARRMANNIA GONAQUA, 1. Spec., 
Plate XLVL., fig. 43. 
This species is somewhat smaller than S. fusciventris and S. boschi- 
mana, from which it is almost indistinguishable unless examined 
very carefully, but on careful comparison the clypeus is seen to be 
differently shaped ; it is not emarginate in the centre as in S. fusci- 
ventris, and it is more arcuate than in S. boschimana, and slightly 
more sinuate in the centre than in this last-named species, the shape 
of the claws of the male is also similar. The difference in the shape 
of the genital armature bears out the slight difference in the general 
facies. In shape it is not unlike that of these two species, but it is 
not at all scooped out in the basal part. 
Length 16-17 mm.; width 84-9 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Beaufort West). 
SPARRMANNIA DISTINCTA, Péring., 
Plate XLVI, fig. 48. 
Trans. 8. Afric. Phil. Soc., vol. iv., 1888, p. 103. 
Pale testaceous all over, or with the elytra testaceous-red or 
reddish-brown ; clypeus straight laterally, then very oblique, deeply 
incised triangularly in the centre, and with the angles of the incision 
