1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 177 



the claws are much more like those of the same sex of vertumnus, 

 but the median vertical claw is not so long. 



Length 19 mm. ; width 10 mm. -j 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



Sparemannia prieska, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 46. 



This species resembles closely S. vertumnus, and might be easily 

 taken for a dwarfed race of the same ; the pubescence on the upper 

 and under sides is identical, the shape of the clypeus is also nearly 

 the same, but it is not quite so deeply cleft in proportion to its size ; 

 the outer margin of the elytra and also the suture are a little 

 darker chestnut-brown than the dorsal part, the hind spurs of the 

 tibiae are wider in both male and female than in S. vertumnus, and 

 almost transparent, and the genital armature of the male is altogether 

 of a different type from that of S. vertumnus, and is narrow and 

 elongated as in S. ca/picola, but differently shaped. 



Length 13^-15 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Hope Town, Prieska). 



Sparrmannia namaqua, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 41. 



Shape, size, and vestiture of S. capicola, and, but for the much 

 smaller size, also closely resembling S. vertumnus ; the colour of the 

 elytra is, however, less testaceous, and somewhat light chestnut- 

 red, and the clypeus is straight laterally for a short distance, thence 

 moderately diagonal, and only slightly emarginate in the centre with 

 the angles of the emargination sharp, but not at all dentate ; in 

 the male the lower tooth of the anterior claws is not quite as 

 apical as in S. vertumnus, and is shorter, although as much curved 

 as the upper, and the third one is slightly more basal ; the genital 

 armature differs much from that of S. vertumnus. 



Length 17-19 mm ; width 8-J-10 mm. 



Cape Colony (O'okiep). 



Sparrmannia boschimana, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 42. 



A very close ally of S. namaqua, and also of S. vertumnus ; it is 

 however, easily differentiated from the latter by the clypeus which 

 is entire, not even emarginate in the centre in the male, and only 

 very slightly so in the female ; the pubescence is similar to that of 



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