1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 207 



serrate in the anterior, the outer margin has the normal fringe of 

 setae, and the base is briefly pubescent, the surface is sprinkled with 

 round punctures, somewhat distant from each other except along the 

 anterior edge, and has a median impunctate transverse space ; 

 scutellum closely punctulate in the basal part, above the transverse 

 impression, and with one puncture only on each side ; elytra a little 

 ampliated laterally past the median part, covered with closely set 

 round punctures bearing each a most minute hair, and separated 

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

 scattered, somewhat shallow round punctures more closely set in the 

 anterior part ; pectus very little pubescent ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate,. 

 tarsi short, claw of anterior tarsi very divaricating, upper claw much 

 longer than the lower one which appears thus more vertical than it 

 really is, and slightly emarginate underneath at the tip ; basal joint 

 of hind tarsi clubbed at the tip, as long as the second one. 



Male not known with certainty. 



Length 14-15 mm. ; width 8-8J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



SCHIZONYCHA INFANTILIS, n. Spec, 



Plate XLL, fig. 55. 



Pale testaceous, with the head and prothorax light brick-red ; 

 clypeus rounded laterally in the anterior part, which is plainly 

 emarginate in the centre, the anterior margin is reflexed, the clypeal 

 carina is plainly sinuate on each side of the median part, which is 

 broadly triangular, with the apex directed towards the basal very 

 sharp carina, the median part of which is also broadly triangular 

 with the apex directed forwards, the whole surface is covered with 

 round, broad not contiguous punctures, and there is no trace of 

 clypeal suture ; prothorax ampliated laterally at a short distance 

 from the basal angle, very broadly rounded thence to the base, and 

 with the crenulate margin slightly sinuate, the surface is covered 

 with nearly equi-distant punctures, smaller and more scabrose in 

 the anterior than in the posterior part, and separated everywhere by 

 a space of about their own diameter, the anterior part is transversely 

 impressed, and the lateral fringe of setae is not dense ; scutellum 

 very closely punctured all over ; elytra sub-cylindrical, covered with 

 closely set punctures separated from each other by a space equal to 

 their width and bearing each a very small, flavescent hair ; pygidium 

 covered with closely set foveolate punctures ; pectus very little 

 pubescent ; abdominal segments densely punctulate laterally, less so 

 in the middle, each puncture bearing a flavescent appressed hair ; 



