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laterally in the median part, and nearly straight from there to the 
basal angle, sharply crenular along the outer margin which is beset 
with very long, fulvous setose hairs, the anterior part and the sides 
are covered with very closely set, deep, somewhat asperous foveolate 
punctures, more scattered and a little broader in the median and 
posterior part of the disk which has a somewhat conspicuous longi- 
tudinal median smooth space, with several irregular smooth areolets 
on each side of it; scutellum with one uninterrupted row of punc- 
tures along the outer edge; elytra not much convex, punctures deep, 
equi-distant, intervals smooth; pygidium with numerous small 
punctures ; punctures on the abdominal segment and on the meta- 
sternum bearing each a long fulvous hair forming a dense pubescence 
on the pectus; penultimate abdominal segment wider than the ante- 
penultimate, last one narrow; tarsi moderately long, teeth of the 
claws very deeply cleft, upper one as robust as the lower, longer and 
plainly emarginate underneath towards the tip; the hind tarsi are 
very little shorter in the female than in the male, in which sex the 
basal joint is very little shorter than the second, whereas it is plainly 
longer in the female ; the shape of the genital armature is unlike all 
others, it is the only one in which the symmetrical lobes are as 
sharply acuminate at the tip. 
Length 13 mm. ; width 15 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 
This species will be easily recognised owing to its small head and 
very little convex elytra. 
SCHIZONYCHA INFARSA, 0. Spec. 
Female: Dark chestnut-brown, shining, tibize and tarsi piceous- 
red, antenne and palpi ferruginous; clypeus sub-truncate in front 
with the median part sinuate, the anterior margin is sharply 
reflexed, the clypeal carina very arcuate and strongly reflexed, and 
behind it there is a deeply impressed transverse line, also slightly 
arcuate in the median part, the basal carina is distinct, and the space 
behind it smooth, but the rest of the head is covered with very rough, 
large scrobiculate punctures; prothorax ampliated laterally towards 
the median part, but very little attenuate thence towards the basal 
angle which is sharp, but plainly narrowed in the anterior part, 
sharply serrate, very convex and having the normal fringe of some- 
what long and not closely set setzealong the outer margin, itiscovered 
with deep round punctures, enclosing a smaller pit, these punctures 
are more closely set along the sides, where they coalesce and 
become almost scrobiculate, but the discoidal ones are separated 
