1904.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 179 



produced as a reflexed tooth, the outer angles are rounded, the 

 clypeus has only a few scattered long hairs, and is very weakly 

 punctulate, the head is plainly and closely punctate, and has very 

 long decumbent hairs, which are not, however, dense enough to hide 

 the sculpture ; prothorax covered with closely set small punctures,, 

 each bearing a very long and very fine sub-erect, pubescent hair, but 

 the whole pubescence is not thick enough to hide the sculpture ; the 

 same pubescence is found on the scutellum, the apical part of which 

 is not punctulate ; elytra of the normal shape, deeply and closely 

 punctate, very faintly striated and having along these extremely 

 faint striae a series of remote, long, sub-appressed, light flavescent 

 hairs similar to those on the prothorax, along the median part of the 

 base and extending triangularly towards the median part of the 

 suture these hairs are much denser ; the propygidium, the pygidium, 

 which is sparsely punctured, and the abdomen are clothed with a 

 long, but not very dense pubescence, which is, however, much 

 denser and equally long on the pectus and femora ; legs normal, 

 inner spur compressed, and only very moderately broadened at tip 

 in the female, the upper one sharp in the male, the anterior claws of 

 which have each two basal teeth. 



This species and also the following one are easily distinguished 

 from the other concolorous ones by the very much less dense and 

 more scattered pubescence ; the teeth of the maxillae are also longer 

 and sharper. 



Length 17-18 mm. ; width 9-9^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (Newcastle), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg,. 

 Eustenburg, Johannesburg, Waterberg). 



The pale testaceous examples are from the Lydenburg District. 



Sparrmannia discrepans, n. spec. 



Eesembles very much S. distincta ; the colour is chestnut-brown 

 and the hairy pubescence light fulvous ; the elytra are also as deeply 

 but more closely punctured, but the plain distinctive character is the 

 shape of the clypeus, the sides of which instead of being straight are 

 plainly bulging out, and the anterior part plainly quadri-dentate, the 

 two median teeth being strongly recurved and longer than the two 

 lateral ones which are, however, plainly reflexed; the rest as in 

 S. distincta, but in my examples (two females) the tooth on the 

 under side of the claws is median, and nearly as long as the upper 

 one. 



Length 18 mm. ; width 11 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo). 



