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length, surface covered with almost contiguous cicatricose punctures 

 separated by scabrose intervals, except along the base and for a 

 median space above the scutellum where these intervals are not 

 scabrose, and the punctures are less cicatricose; scutellum pluri- 

 punctate on each side, the punctures more numerous in the female 

 than in the male ; elytra elongated, distinctly sinuate laterally before 

 the median part, and very little ampliated thence ; the punctures are 

 divided by intervals narrower than their diameter, and somewhat 

 raised in the discoidal part, the hair they bear is most minute ; pygi- 

 dium covered with closely set foveolate punctures separated by 

 intervals half the size of their diameter ; pectus moderately densely 

 villose ; abdomen convex in both sexes, the segments are closely 

 punctured laterally, each puncture bearing a fine appressed hair, the 

 penultimate segment is slightly wider than the one preceding in the 

 male, but not wider in the female the last segment of which is very 

 swollen ; upper tooth of all the claws longer and only slightly more 

 slender than the lower one. 



Length 14-16 mm. ; width 7-8f mm. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury), Mozambique (Lourenco- 

 Marquez). 



SCHIZONYCHA CONTINENS, n. Spec, 



Plate XLL, fig. 80. 



This species is much smaller than S. valida, but the shape is 

 similar, it is also ferruginous, with the head and prothorax fuscous 

 and the antennas ferruginous ; clypsus semicircular but very slightly 

 obtuse in the median anterior part, clypeal carina sharp, arcuate, 

 slightly angular in the middle, and having behind at some distance 

 a transverse impressed line and a small, triangular smooth median 

 patch adjoining it, the basal carina is sharp and the space behind it 

 impunctate, but the rest of the head is covered with contiguous, 

 scabrose punctures ; prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally 

 somewhat beyond the median part, as obliquely narrowed towards 

 the posterior as towards the anterior angle, and with the outer 

 margin very plainly serrate and covered with foveate punctures 

 somewhat cicatricose in the anterior part, and separated by narrow 

 equal, slightly raised walls all over the surface ; scutellum with two 

 arcuate rows of punctures impinging on each other ; elytra deeply 

 punctured, the punctures separated from each other by a space 

 narrower than their own diameter ; pygidium closely foveolate- 

 punctate ; punctures on the sides of the abdominal segments and on 

 the metasternum deep, and bearing each a squamose hair, pectus 

 very little hairy ; tarsi long, upper part of the claws, especially the 



