244 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. X11. 
In general appearance this species resembles S. spurza and S. 
rufina, but the prothorax is not narrowed laterally between the 
median and the basal part as in these two species, and the shape of 
the genital armature is also different. 
Length 17 mm.; width 9 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (? Namaqualand). 
SCHIZONYCHA VALVATA, Brensk., 
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 353. 
This species, described from a female example, is very closely 
allied to S. noscitata, but while in S. noscitata the basal tooth of the 
anterior tibiz is very distinct, it is almost obliterated in S. valvata, 
although a female ; the shape and sculpture of the head are similar, 
the basal carina has also a distinct groove; the punctures are 
nearly the same, but a little more closely set on the discoidal part 
which bears a longitudinal smooth line, but has no areolet; the 
scutellum and the elytra are identical, and the hair in the punctures 
is small but distinct ; the pygidium is punctured alike, but in the 
centre there is a broad, shallow, depressed, longitudinal band, and 
also a small, lateral impression on each side of the base; the last 
segment of the abdomen is moderately broad, transverse, and not 
swollen; the tarsi are as long as in the male (the hind ones are 
missing in the type), the upper tooth of the anterior and intermediate 
claws is deeply cleft, narrower and shorter than the lower. 
Length 174 mm. ; width 9 mm. 
The type is the only example of this species which I have seen, 
and is labelled ‘8. Af.”” “Coll. Jekel.”’ 
ScHIZONYCHA RUGOSA, Brensk. 
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 353. 
Chestnut-brown, with the elytra somewhat light testaceous; 
antenne and palpi sub-flavescent ; clypeus only slightly blunted in 
front, and somewhat narrow owing to the strongly arcuate clypeal 
suture; the suture is distinct, and so is the basal carina which is 
grooved, the surface of the clypeus is closely scrobiculato-foveate, 
and the frontal one granulose ; prothorax scarcely ampliated laterally 
in the middle, nearly straight thence towards the basal angle which 
projects, plainly serrate laterally from the anterior angle to about 
the median part, and covered all over with small, closely set 
granules, giving it a very scabrose appearance, supra-basal folds con- 
spicuously raised; scutellum pluri-punctate; elytra elongated, a 
