1904, | Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 229' 
from each other, are somewhat irregularly scattered, and are divided 
by a space somewhat wider than their own diameter, the basal 
margin is not fringed with hairs; scutellum with two somewhat 
irregular lateral rows of punctures; elytra convex, a little ampliated 
laterally past the median part covered with moderately shallow 
punctures, somewhat closely set yet separated from each other by a 
space equal to their own diameter, and bearing each a most minute 
hair, these punctures are not round and are slightly cicatricose ; edge 
of propygidium closely punctulate, pygidium covered with deep, round, 
closely set punctures; pectus very slightly pubescent; abdominal 
segments covered, except in the median part, with very closely set, 
setiferous, scabrose punctures, the penultimate segment, which is 
a little wider than the one preceding, has a basal transverse median 
carinate groove, and the punctures on the side are broader than on 
the other segments, and not scabrose; anterior tibie strongly tri- 
dentate ; tarsi short, anterior claws strongly developed, upper one 
as long and nearly as robust as the lower one; basal joint of hind 
tarsi as long as the second. 
Male unknown. 
This species has a short, robust facies. 
Length 17 mm.; width 10 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
ScHIZONYCHA NEUTRA, 0. spec. 
Female: Rusty-red, with the elytra and abdomen redder, shining, 
the punctures on the upper side bear a most minute hair, antenne 
reddish-brown; head small, clypeus oblique laterally towards the 
anterior part, which is truncate in the centre, and the outer part 
rounded, the clypeal carina is moderately arcuate, the clypeal suture 
short and close to the carina, the basal one is distinct and projects 
slightly in the middle towards the frontal part, and the surface of 
the clypeus and frontal part is somewhat closely cicatricose punctate: 
except along the clypeal suture and the basal carina ; prothorax broad, 
not ampliated laterally in the middle, not narrowed thence towards 
the base, but nevertheless very slightly sinuate above the basal angle,. 
the outer margin is plainly serrate and normally setulose, and the 
punctures on the surface are very scattered, but a little more closely 
set along the median anterior part, they are round, very little cica- 
tricose, there is distinct median longitudinal smooth space, and the 
interspaces are smooth ; scutellum broad, punctate laterally ; elytra. 
ampliated from a third of the length; punctures broad and deep, 
the suture is infuscate; pygidium not distinctly punctulate ;. 
