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which the head is much narrower ; the prothorax, however, has the 
same shape in both species. 
In Herr Brenske’s Collection. 
ScHIZONYCHA VILLOSA, Brensk., 
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 367. 
Brick-red, shining, prothorax a little redder than the elytra; 
clypeus plainly semicircular, but obtuse for a very short space in 
the anterior part, and with the margin distinctly reflexed all round, 
the clypeal carina is almost transverse, the basal one is nearly as 
much raised as the clypeal, and the surface of the head, with the 
exception of the base, is covered with cicatricose punctures some- 
what asperous in the frontal part ; prothorax ampliated and rounded 
laterally at about the median part, which slopes so much downwards 
that if seen from above it does not seem to be narrowed towards the 
sharp basal angle, it is covered with round punctures somewhat 
irregularly scattered in the discoidal part, but set nearer to each 
other on the sides, the outer margin is very slightly crenulate, and 
the hairs are somewhat long; scutellum pluri-punctate on each side ; 
elytra somewhat short, and with the punctures deep and each bear- 
ing a minute greyish hair; pygidium with only a few scattered round 
punctures ; pectus densely pubescent in the male, and with a few 
appressed squamulose hairs in the female ; femora somewhat densely 
hairy; tarsi moderately long, claws very diverging, upper tooth 
curved, much longer and more curved than the lower, which is very 
short, sub-vertical, and also sub-median; the basal hind tarsal joint 
is very short in the male, and proportionately less so in the female. 
Length 11 mm.; width 6 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Maritzburg). 
SCHIZONYCHA DISSENSA, Nl. Spec., 
Plate XLIIL,, fig. 53. 
Black, not much shining, elytra and legs occasionally deep fuscous- 
brown; antenn and palpi piceous-red ; punctures on the upper side 
bearing a very minute greyish hair; head small in proportion to the 
width of the prothorax, clypeus not much arcuate laterally near the 
base, but more so towards the anterior part, which is somewhat blunt 
but not quite truncate, the clypeal carina projects triangularly in the 
median part; the basal carina is distinct, but not very sharp, and the 
whole surface is covered with contiguous, foveolate, shallow punctures 
somewhat asperous on the frontal part; prothorax not ampliated 
