178 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



the two species mentioned ; the shape of the claws is the same as in 

 S. namaqua, but the elytra are more finely aciculate, and are also 

 paler ; the genital armature of the two species are nearly similar, but 

 the valves are more robust in S. boschimana, and the basal scooped- 

 out space is strongly angular, and much less so and also more sloping 

 in S. namaqua. 



Length 18-21 mm. ; width 10-12 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland). 



Sparrmannia fusciventris, Boh., 

 Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 80. 



I have only seen Boheman's type of this species, which is a 

 female, and almost similar to S. boschimana, the clypeus is re- 

 gularly semicircular from side to side, and the apical spurs of the 

 hind tibiae are, especially the upper one, more broadly marginate 

 than in either S. namaqua or S. boschimana. 



Length 20 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Limpopo Eiver, teste Bohem. 



Sparrmannia gonaqua, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 43. 



This species is somewhat smaller than S. fusciventris and S. boschi- 

 mana, from which it is almost indistinguishable unless examined 

 very carefully, but on careful comparison the clypeus is seen to be 

 differently shaped ; it is not emarginate in the centre as in S. fusci- 

 ventris, and it is more arcuate than in S. boschimana, and slightly 

 more sinuate in the centre than in this last-named species, the shape 

 of the claws of the male is also similar. The difference in the shape 

 of the genital armature bears out the slight difference in the general 

 facies. In shape it is not unlike that of these two species, but it is 

 not at all scooped out in the basal part. 



Length 16-17 mm. ; width 8^-9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Beaufort West). 



Sparrmannia distincta, Pering., 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 48. 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iv., 1888, p. 103. 



Pale testaceous all over, or with the elytra testaceous-red or 

 reddish-brown ; clypeus straight laterally, then very oblique, deeply 

 incised triangularly in the centre, and with the angles of the incision 



