176 Transactions South African Philosophical Society [vol. xiii. 



Spare mannia leo, Gyllenh., 

 Schonh. Syn. Ins., i., 3 ; Append., p. 69. 



" Testaceous, shining, densely clothed with pallid hairs ; elytra 

 glabrous. 



Length 8-9 lin. 



Claws longer and more strongly curved, with three teeth, those 

 of the male with a fine notch next to the apex, and a broad but 

 short tooth at the base, that of the female shorter, the apex is simple 

 and they have two distinct sharp separate teeth at the base." 



I have not yet met with this species. 



Sparrmannia transvaalica, n. spec. 



This species, of which I have seen two females only, resembles 

 closely S. vertumnus, but it is distinguished by the very much 

 thinner pubescence on the head, prothorax, and abdomen, the 

 very closely set punctures on the head, which are, however, 

 smaller than those on the clypeus, are plainly visible, the margins 

 of the clypeus are more reflexed, and the two angles of the median 

 incision are much more tooth-like, owing to the margin being some- 

 what sinuate next to them ; the hind spurs of the tibiae, especially 

 the upper one, are very much more broadly dilated than in the 

 female of A. vertumnus, its nearest ally. The elytra are light 

 flavous. 



Length 23-24 mm. ; width 12 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg). 



Sparrmannia capicola, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 47. 



Smaller than S. vertumnus, but clothed with a similar pubescence, 

 the colour is the same, but the elytra are somewhat more roughly 

 punctured, and plainly more coriaceous, but it differs from S. ver- 

 tumnus by the more elongated clypeus which is also deeply slit in 

 the middle with the angles of the incision not dentate, and the 

 whole surface of which is almost impunctate ; by the shape of the 

 antennal club, the inner joint of which is plainly shorter than the 

 one following, and by that of the anterior claws of the male, 

 in which the upper tooth is simple, and only in the basal part 

 is there a short, vertical one, the basal tooth being obliterated, but in 

 the intermediate and posterior legs there is a conspicuous, vertical, 

 slightly post-median tooth and a minute basal one : in the female 



