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somewhat ampliate behind, the punctures are deep, equi-distant; 
and the hairs are very minute; pygidium deeply and closely pune- 
tate all over ; abdominal segment very little punctate in the middle, 
but with the lateral punctures bearing long, pubescent hairs, penul- 
timate not wider than the one preceding ; pectus clothed with dense, 
pubescent hairs; upper claw of anterior legs longer and slightly 
broader than the lower, and plainly emarginate underneath towards 
the tip. The nearest ally of this species is S. znswesa, which is, 
however, quite distinct. In shape the genital armature is not 
unlike that of S. barda, but is different nevertheless. Female 
unknown. 
Length 12 mm.; width 5 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand), 
SCHIZONYCHA EXACERBANS, Nn. spec., 
Plate XLIII., fig. 41. 
The nearest ally of this species, so far as the shape of the clypeus 
and the sculpture of the body are concerned, is S. plausibilis, but it 
is more slender, and the colour is testaceous-red ; the clypeal carina 
is more arcuate, and the suture is therefore shorter; the coxa: 
and metasternum instead of being pubescent have only a few 
hairs along the anterior part, but they have instead a white 
squamose hair in each puncture. The outward differences sepa- 
rating the two species are thus in S. eracerbans a more slender shape 
and redder colour, a more arcuate clypeal carina, and a squamulose 
pectus, but the shape of the genital armature is very dissimilar from 
that of S. plausibilis ; the upper tooth of all the claws is longer than 
the lower, not much more slender at the base, but slightly emar- 
ginate underneath at the apex, and therefore quite similar to those 
of S. plausibilis. 
Length 13 mm.; width 62 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). 
SCHIZONYCHA PROFUGA, N. spec., 
Plate LL, fig. 84. 
Head, prothorax, and legs chestnut or rusty-brown, elytra paler, 
sometimes testaceous, antennz and palpi rusty-red, club not much 
elongated; clypeus plainly sinuate in. front in both sexes, wider 
in the female, clypeal carina arcuate in both sexes, suture distinct, 
basal carina also distinct, not sinuate in the male, slightly so in the 
female ; prothorax plainly ampliated slightly past the median part, 
basal angle sharp, outer margin distinctly crenulate along the whole 
