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produced as a reflexed tooth, the outer angles are rounded, the 
clypeus has only a few scattered long hairs, and is very weakly 
punctulate, the head is plainly and closely punctate, and has very 
long decumbent hairs, which are not, however, dense enough to hide 
the sculpture ; prothorax covered with closely set small punctures, 
each bearing a very long and very fine sub-erect, pubescent hair, but 
the whole pubescence is not thick enough to hide the sculpture ; the 
same pubescence is found on the scutellum, the apical part of which 
is not punctulate; elytra of the normal shape, deeply and closely 
punctate, very faintly striated and having along these extremely 
faint striz a series of remote, long, sub-appressed, light flavescent. 
hairs similar to those on the prothorax, along the median part of the 
base and extending triangularly towards the median part of the 
suture these hairs are much denser ; the propygidium, the pygidium, 
which is sparsely punctured, and the abdomen are clothed with a. 
long, but not very dense pubescence, which is, however, much 
denser and equally long on the pectus and femora; legs normal, 
inner spur compressed, and only very moderately broadened at tip 
in the female, the upper one sharp in the male, the anterior claws of 
which have each two basal teeth. 
This species and also the following one are easily distinguished 
from the other concolorous ones by the very much less dense and 
more scattered pubescence ; the teeth of the maxille are also longer 
and sharper. 
Length 17-18 mm. ; width 9-94 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Newcastle), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, 
Rustenburg, Johannesburg, Waterberg). 
The pale testaceous examples are from the Lydenburg District. 
SPARRMANNIA DISCREPANS, Nl. Spec. 
Resembles very much S, distincta ; the colour is chestnut-brown 
and the hairy pubescence light fulvous ; the elytra are also as deeply 
but more closely punctured, but the plain distinctive character is the 
shape of the clypeus, the sides of which instead of being straight are 
plainly bulging out, and the anterior part plainly quadri-dentate, the 
two median teeth being strongly recurved and longer than the two 
lateral ones which are, however, plainly reflexed; the rest as in 
S. distincta, but in my examples (two females) the tooth on the 
under side of the claws is median, and nearly as long as the upper 
one. 
Length 18 mm.; width 11 mm, 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo). 
