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versely; prothorax convex, not attenuate laterally from the non- 
ampliated median part to the base, only slightly sinuate above the 
basal angle, a little narrowed in the anterior part, which is plainly 
serrate, but the margin of the posterior part is simple, it is covered 
with scattered punctures somewhat irregular in the discoidal part, 
but set more closely along the sides, especially along the anterior 
margin where they are slightly scabrose ; scutellum with a few lateral 
punctures, elytra covered with deep punctures separated from each 
other by a space a little wider than their own diameter, and bearing 
each a squamose hair of the same size as those of the head and 
prothorax ; pygidium irregularly plicate longitudinally in the middle, 
coriaceous, and with scattered squamose hairs; sides of abdominal 
segments, and metasternum somewhat thickly squamose, penulti- 
mate abdominal segment wider than the antepenultimate, anterior 
tibiz bi-dentate, tarsi moderately long, upper tooth of all tarsi very 
minute and very short, lower claw robust; basal joint of hind tarsi 
short, second one one-third longer. 
Length 14-15 mm.; width 7-8 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony. My two examples of this species were 
collected by Zeyher. The genital armature is not unlike that of 
S. vicaria, but shorter, and the left clasp is considerably wider at 
apex. 
SCHIZONYCHA VICARIA, Nn. spec., 
Plate XLII, fig. 54. 
Piceous-black, antennz and tarsi piceous-red; all the punctures 
bear a white squamose hair; head somewhat small, clypeus broadly 
truncate, not sinuate in the centre. This species is similar in shape to 
S. indotata and S. fatidica, but its nearest ally is S. wigricornis, from 
which it is distinguished by the punctures on the prothorax being more 
cicatricose, more closely set, more scabrose in the anterior part, and 
separated on the posterior by irregular, slightly raised, smooth walls ; 
the scutellum has also three or four punctures on each side, but the 
punctures on the elytra are deeper, and the juxta-sutural space 
is more coriaceous; the penultimate abdominal segment is wider 
than the one preceding and has a few long hairs, but the squamose 
hairs on the sides of the segments are not so plainly squamose, and 
the metasternum is densely villose ; the anterior tibixe are bi-dentate 
like those of S. nigricornis but more briefly sinuate above the basal 
tooth; the tarsi are longer, and the upper tooth of the claws is more 
deeply cleft but also very slender, and, lastly, the two genital arma- 
tures vary in shape. 
Length 154 mm. ; width 8 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand), 
