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length, surface covered with almost contiguous cicatricose punctures 
separated by scabrose intervals, except along the base and for a 
median space above the scutellum where these intervals are not 
scabrose, and the punctures are less cicatricose; scutellum pluri- 
punctate on each side, the punctures more numerous in the female 
than in the male; elytra elongated, distinctly sinuate laterally before 
the median part, and very little ampliated thence ; the punctures are 
divided by intervals narrower than their diameter, and somewhat 
raised in the diseoidal part, the hair they bear is most minute; pygi- 
dium covered with closely set foveolate punctures separated by 
intervals half the size of their diameter ; pectus moderately densely 
villose; abdomen convex in both sexes, the segments are closely 
punctured laterally, each puncture bearing a fine appressed hair, the 
penultimate segment is slightly wider than the one preceding in the 
male, but not wider in the female the last segment of which is very 
swollen ; upper tooth of all the claws longer and only slightly more 
slender than the lower one. 
Length 14-16 mm.; width 7-8? mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury), Mozambique (Lourenco- 
Marquez). 
SCHIZONYCHA CONTINENS, N. spec., 
Plate XLI., fig. 80. 
This species is much smaller than S. valida, but the shape is 
similar, it is also ferruginous, with the head and prothorax fuscous 
and the antenne ferruginous ; clypeus semicircular but very slightly 
obtuse in the median anterior part, clypeal carina sharp, arcuate, 
slightly angular in the middle, and having behind at some distance 
a transverse impressed line and a small, triangular smooth median 
patch adjoining it, the basal carina is sharp and the space behind it 
impunctate, but the rest of the head is covered with contiguous, 
scabrose punctures; prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally 
somewhat beyond the median part, as obliquely narrowed towards 
the posterior as towards the anterior angle, and with the outer 
margin very plainly serrate and covered with foveate punctures 
somewhat cicatricose in the anterior part, and separated by narrow 
equal, slightly raised walls all over the surface; scutellum with two 
arcuate rows of punctures impinging on each other; elytra deeply 
punctured, the punctures separated from each other by a space 
narrower than their own diameter; pygidium closely foveolate- 
punctate ; punctures on the sides of the abdominal segments and on 
the metasternum deep, and bearing each a squamose hair, pectus 
very little hairy; tarsi long, upper part of the claws, especially the 
