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anterior ones, little longer and very slightly more slender than the 

 lower which is also elongate ; the genital armature resembles a little 

 that of S. zambesina, which belongs to a different section of the genus. 



Length 12J-13 mm. ; width 6-6 J mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Barberton, Waterberg, Pretoria) ; 

 Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo). 



SCHIZONYCHA CARBONARIA, Bohem., 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 99. 



Black ; palpi, antennae, and legs piceous, each puncture on the 

 upper side with a short, but distinct white hair ; club of antennae of 

 the male moderately long, the three joints pilose laterally ; body 

 "sub-parallel in the male, more ampliated laterally and much more 

 convex in the female ; clypeus truncate in front, slightly more 

 emarginate in the centre in the male than in the female, clypeal 

 carina arcuate but with the median part sub-triangular, suture plain, 

 basal part not carinate, yet slightly raised, space behind the eleva- 

 tion punctulate, surface covered with nearly confluent, sub-scrobicu- 

 late punctures ; prothorax not much ampliated laterally in the 

 middle and only slightly narrowed thence towards the sharp basal 

 angle in the male, but much more plainly narrowed in the female, 

 coarsely serrate along the outer margin and with the fringe of stiff 

 hairs conspicuous, it is covered with foveolate punctures almost 

 contiguous in the anterior part where the narrow intervals are 

 scabrose, more remote and with smooth intervals in the posterior 

 part, and having in the middle of the disk a longitudinal smooth 

 space ; elytra short, nearly parallel and not much convex in the 

 male, ampliated and very convex in the female, the punctures are 

 deep and the intervals smooth ; pygidium with shallow, nearly 

 obliterated round punctures in the male, deep and moderately closely 

 set in the female ; penultimate abdominal segment slightly wider 

 than the antepenultimate, last segment very narrow in the male, 

 broader in the female ; pectus not hairy ; upper tooth of claws a 

 little more slender in the male than in the female, but longer than 

 the lower in both sexes ; tarsi long. 



This species is very closely allied in shape to S. gucesita, S. 

 durbana, S. spuria, and S. sguamifera. It is much smaller than 

 the three first-named species, but the female can hardly be dis- 

 tinguished from rubbed examples of S. sguamifera ; the shape of 

 the genital armature is of quite a different type from that of he 

 species above mentioned, and resembles closely that of S. puerffis, 

 the left lobe, however, is truncate at apex. 



