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closely set fulvous setae, it is convex on the upper side and altogether 

 scabrose except for a somewhat faint smooth median longitudinal 

 band ; scutellum with only one puncture on each side of the apical 

 part ; elytra very convex, somewhat short, being only twice and a 

 quarter the length of the prothorax, slightly ampliated laterally past 

 the middle, fringed with long, somewhat scattered fulvous hairs from 

 the humeral angle to about one-third of the length, and thence with 

 a thick band of shorter ones, covered with closely set punctures 

 enclosing a minute granule and bearing a short, decumbent squamose 

 and somewhat long greyish- white hair ; pygidium with somewhat 

 deep, round, scattered punctures ; pectus clothed with a dense, long 

 fulvous pubescence ; abdominal segments with a transverse row of 

 punctures bearing each a very long, decumbent seta, penultimate one 

 pluri-punctate laterally, not wider than the one preceding, last one 

 somewhat narrow, plane ; anterior tibiae very sharply tri-dentate, 

 tarsi somewhat short ; basal joint of the hind ones dilated at the tip 

 and longer than the one following. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



This species, the male of which is unknown, is allied to S. globator, 

 and has likewise a thick fringe of dense, short hairs along the outer 

 and posterior margins of the elytra ; it differs, however, from it in the 

 absence of a longitudinal raised line in the centre of the clypeus, the 

 prothorax is scabrose instead of being broadly punctate, the sculpture 

 is different and it is as convex as S. natalensis $ . 



Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland). 



SCHIZONYCHA BOSCHIMANA, n. Spec. 



Female : Ferruginous-red, with the elytra a little paler than the 

 head and prothorax, shining, glabrous on the upper side except for a 

 row of not closely set setae along the outer margin of the prothorax 

 and elytra ; clypeus quite truncate in front and not much rounded 

 laterally, clypeal carina distinctly arcuate, and having behind a 

 straight transverse impressed line, the basal carina is situated at 

 •some distance from the base, and is slightly arcuate, the surface of 

 the whole head is coarsely punctured ; prothorax sharply crenulate 

 along the sides which are plainly narrowed from the apical part to 

 about two-thirds of the length where they are ampliated, and thence 

 obliquely attenuated towards the basal angle, it is closely but not 

 sharply scabrose except along the base where it is nearly smooth, 

 and along the base it has a short fringe of flavescent hairs ; scutellum 

 with a lateral row of punctures on each side ; elytra elongated, twice 

 and a half the length of the prothorax, a little sinuate laterally before 



