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of long, not very closely set setae, but there is no brush-like fringe 

 of short and very dense fulvous hairs in the posterior part, as in 

 S. globator ; the shape of the clypeus and head is similar to that of 

 the last-named species, but the genae project a little more and the 

 clypeus has no distinct longitudinal median ridge ; the sides of the 

 abdominal segments are closely punctate and bear a few scale-like 

 hairs, and the penultimate one is also closely punctured along the 

 apical margin ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate, tarsi somewhat 

 short in both sexes, upper claw much longer than the lower one and 

 equally robust. The female hardly differs from the male. 



Length 10-12 mm. ; width 6-6J mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



The males are met with flying low near the ground at the hottest 

 time of a summer day (December). 



Schizonycha comosa, Burm., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 52. 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 270. 



This species is so closely allied to S. ciliata that but for the shape- 

 of the genital armature and a few minor characters it might be looked 

 upon as a small example of the same ; the clypeus, however, is more 

 deeply sinuate in front ; on the prothorax the punctures are not so 

 plainly asperous, and the median smooth longitudinal line is more 

 distinct, especially in the female ; the pygidium is much less closely 

 punctured, not coriaceous in the basal part and has there a median 

 longitudinal impunctate space in the male, not in the female. 



Length 15J-16 mm. ; width 8-8^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore, Beaufort West). 



The genital armature does not resemble that of S. ciliata. 



Schizonycha fartula, n. spec, 

 ? S. unicolor, Herbst., Kaff., hi., p. 156, pi. xxvi., fig. 9. 



Female : Ferruginous-red, or sometimes chestnut-brown ; palpi 

 and antennas testaceous, tibiae piceous-red ; clypeus moderately 

 arcuate, not sinuate in front, clypeal carina arcuate, sharp, edged 

 very closely behind by a slight transverse impressed line, basal 

 carina distinct and slightly bi-sinuate, the surface of the head is 

 covered with nearly coalescing, sub-scabrose elongate punctures, a. 

 little less deep on the clypeus than on the frontal part ; prothorax 

 distinctly ampliated laterally in the middle, very little more- 

 narrowed in the anterior than in the posterior part, and more sharply 





