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sharp, arcuate and slightly angular in the centre, the basal one is 

 also sharp but less so than the clypeal one and somewhat triangular 

 in the centre, the space on the head between the two carinae is tilled 

 with deep, round, confluent foveate punctures, which are occasionally 

 .a little more scattered on the clypeus ; pro thorax very convex, 

 ampliated laterally at about the middle and a little more diagonally 

 attenuated thence towards the anterior than towards the basal part, 

 closely but not very sharply serrulate, covered with round, somewhat 

 •closely set foveas separated from each other by a much narrower 

 •space than their diameter, and having in the centre a short, smooth 

 band, base fringed with a light fulvous pubescence ; scutellum with 

 a lateral series of punctures sometimes interrupted ; elytra somewhat 

 short, being hardly more than twice as long as the prothorax, very 

 •convex but not ampliated laterally, and covered with deep, round 

 foveate punctures similar to those on the prothorax, but divided 

 from each other by a space equal to their diameter ; pygidium 

 •covered with closely set foveate punctures ; anterior tibiae strongly 

 tri-dentate outwardly, tarsi very little longer than the tibiae, upper 

 daw of the anterior ones much longer than the lower which is some- 

 what perpendicular, basal joint of hind tarsi plainly clubbed at the 

 apex and a little longer than the one following. 



Male unknown to me. Burmeister says in his description of this 

 sex that the club of the antennae is only very little longer than in the 

 female, that the median part of the prothorax has a longitudinal 

 smooth band, and that the scutellum is wholly smooth with a 

 marginal groove ; but these two last characters are also met with in 

 the female. 



Length 11J-12 mm. ; width 6J-6^- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



SCHIZONYCHA IDONEA, 11. spec, 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 57. 



? S. corrosa, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., vol. iv., 2, p. 270. 



Black, or piceous-black, very little shining, antennae ferruginous ; 

 legs and tarsi piceous-red ; extremely closely allied to S. globator, 

 the female, however, is. a little Jess convex on the elytra, and the 

 •clypeus has no longitudinal carina in either sex ; the shape and 

 sculpture of the head, prothorax, and elytra are identical, but each 

 foveolate puncture bears a short greyish hair ; the basal part of the 

 prothorax and the pectus are clothed with a dense and somewhat 

 long fiavescent pubescence, the sides of the prothorax and of the 

 .anterior part of the elytra from the base to the middle have a fringe 



