224 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. Xt. 
Length 13-18 mm.; width 84-94 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Boksburg); Cape Colony (Kim- 
berley). 
Boheman gives the whole of Caffraria as the habitat of this species ; 
so far, I have received it only from the localities here mentioned. 
I fear, however, that several allied species have been included 
under the name by him, because a second example labelled Type 
and sent to me from Stockholm Museum is, as a matter of fact, 
a new species which does not agree with the description of this 
author, while the first example seen does agree. The outer apical 
margin of the forceps is more obliquely narrowed towards the apex 
than in the figure. 
SCHIZONYCHA VALIDA, Bohem., 
Plate XLITI., fig. 62. 
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 96. 
Rusty or chestnut-brown, somewhat pale testaceous ; hair in each 
puncture most minute on the upper side; pectus densely villose ; 
clypeus semicircular, very slightly blunted in front in the male, 
clypeal carina arcuate, suture distinct and set very close to the 
carina, basal carina sharp, punctures on the clypeus foveate, on the 
frontal part plainly scabrose; prothorax ampliated and rounded 
laterally past the median part, less narrowed thence to the sharp 
basal angle than towards the apical, outer margin serrate along 
the whole length, surface covered with cicatricose punctures with 
asperous intervals in the anterior part, in the posterior these 
punctures are broader, and the intervals are smooth and very 
slightly raised, but occasionally they form some small areolets near 
the centre, especially in the female; the depth of the punctures and 
the sharpness of the scabrose parts differ, however, very greatly even 
in examples from the same locality; scutellum pluri-punctate 
laterally ; elytra deeply punctate, plainly coriaceous; pygidium 
closely punctured, the punctures more shallow, as usual, in the 
male than in the female; penultimate abdominal segment a little 
broader than the ante-penultimate in both sexes, last one somewhat 
broad or very broad, more or less swollen; upper tooth of all the 
claws much longer than the lower and robust. 
This species varies very much in size, colour, and sculpture. My 
examples from the neighbourhood of the Zambesi River are darker, 
more robust, and more deeply sculptured all over than those from 
the Klerksdorp, Pretoria, and Waterberg Districts in the Transvaal. 
Some of the latter are as pale testaceous and as slender as S. cvtuma, 
