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



Length 13-18 mm. ; width 8|— 9-J mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Boksburg) ; Cape Colony (Kim- 

 berley). 



Boheman gives the whole of Caffraria as the habitat of this species ; 

 so far, I have received it only from the localities here mentioned. 

 I fear, however, that several allied species have been included 

 under the name by him, because a second example labelled Type 

 and sent to me from Stockholm Museum is, as a matter of fact, 

 a new species which does not agree with the description of this 

 author, while the first example seen does agree. The outer apical 

 margin of the forceps is more obliquely narrowed towards the apex 

 than in the figure. 



Schizonycha valida, Bohem., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 62. 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 96. 



Eusty or chestnut-brown, somewhat pale testaceous ; hair in each 

 puncture most minute on the upper side ; pectus densely villose ; 

 clypeus semicircular, very slightly blunted in front in the male, 

 clypeal carina arcuate, suture distinct and set very close to the 

 carina, basal carina sharp, punctures on the clypeus foveate, on the 

 frontal part plainly scabrose ; prothorax ampliated and rounded 

 laterally past the median part, less narrowed thence to the sharp 

 basal angle than towards the apical, outer margin serrate along 

 the whole length, surface covered with cicatricose punctures with 

 asperous intervals in the anterior part, in the posterior these 

 punctures are broader, and the intervals are smooth and very 

 slightly raised, but occasionally they form some small areolets near 

 the centre, especially in the female ; the depth of the punctures and 

 the sharpness of the scabrose parts differ, however, very greatly even 

 in examples from the same locality ; scutellum pluri-punctate 

 laterally ; elytra deeply punctate, plainly coriaceous ; pygidium 

 closely punctured, the punctures more shallow, as usual, in the 

 male than in the female ; penultimate abdominal segment a little 

 broader than the ante-penultimate in both sexes, last one somewhat 

 broad or very broad, more or less swollen ; upper tooth of all the 

 claws much longer than the lower and robust. 



This species varies very much in size, colour, and sculpture. My 

 examples from the neighbourhood of the Zambesi River are darker, 

 more robust, and more deeply sculptured all over than those from 

 the Klerksdorp, Pretoria, and Waterberg Districts in the Transvaal. 

 Some of the latter are as pale testaceous and as slender as S. citima, 



