218 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



SCHIZONYCHA BARDA, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entom, iv., 2, p. 273. 



Chestnut or fuscous-brown, sometimes nearly black on the upper 

 side, club of antennae, under side and legs piceous-brown ; clypeus 

 somewhat short, and with the whole of the apex truncate, and the 

 sides only moderately rounded towards the anterior part, the clypeal 

 carina is not as much raised as in the other South African species, 

 and is somewhat obliterated towards the outer angles, it is not 

 strongly arcuate, and the suture is very plain, the basal carina is 

 sharp and slightly bi-sinuate, and the surface is closely cicatricose- 

 punctate ; the head is small in proportion to the width of the pro- 

 thorax which is ampliated and rounded slightly past the median 

 part, with the outer margin plainly serrate from the apex to the 

 middle, and less thence to the base, the lateral setae are somewhat 

 bristly and short, and it is covered with cicatricose punctures closely 

 set in the anterior part, rounder and set a little more apart in the 

 posterior, above the centre of the base, there is a longitudinal, not 

 always distinct, smooth space ; scutellum with a lateral row of 

 closely-set punctures ; punctures on the elytra deep and with the 

 intervals on each side of the suture slightly coriaceous ; pygidium 

 faintly punctulate ; tarsi long, upper tooth of the claws very long 

 and curved, lower one very short, and nearly median on that 

 account, but also curved; the pectus and sides of the abdomen have 

 a few squamose sub-flavescent hairs, but the former is not villose ; 

 penultimate segment a little broader than the preceding, last segment 

 somewhat narrow, not swollen. The female is as much convex as 

 that of S. natalensis or Atys ovatula, but has 10-jointed antennae. 



Length 10f-13 mm. ; width 5^-7 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



This species differs from the other in the clypeal carina being very 

 little raised, but it is not quite obliterated as stated by Burmeister. 

 The forcipes of the genital armature are almost exactly like those of 

 S. dissensa. 



SCHIZONYCHA MINIMA, 11. Spec, 



Plate XLL, fig. 70. 



Dark chestnut-brown, moderately shining, each pimcture above 

 and under with a squamose greyish hair ; clypeus blunted in front, 

 and not much sinuated there, clypeal carina arcuate, suture 

 moderately plain, basal carina indistinct, frontal surface closely 

 scrobiculate ; prothorax ampliated laterally past the median part 

 and moderately narrowed thence to the sharp basal angle, covered 

 with round foveae separated by a narrow raised smooth interval, 



