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moderately closely set, round punctures, a little more scattered on 

 the apical part ; abdominal segments finely but not very numerously 

 punctured laterally, pectus clothed with a long, yellowish pubescence ; 

 tarsi long, upper part of claws, especially the anterior, longer and 

 somewhat more robust than the lower, but emarginate underneath at 

 the tip ; penultimate abdominal segment broader than the one pre- 

 ceding, last segment not broad, not convex. 



Length 16-18 mm. ; width 7J-9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, ? Namaqualand). 



The female is more massive than the male, and the punctures 

 somewhat deeper and more cicatricose on the prothorax. 



My typical example is from Drege's own collection, and is labelled 

 Schizonycha capensis, Dej., but I doubt if it is the insect described 

 under that name by Burmeister. In the Collection of the late Jas. 

 Thomson it is labelled S. tumida. 



Schizonycha fraudulenta, n. spec. 



Closely allied to S. tumida, and closely resembling it in shape, 

 size, colour, and sculpture, but the head has a distinct clypeal suture 

 which is wanting in S. capensis, the punctures on the prothorax are 

 slightly less closely set in the posterior part, and the prothorax is 

 plainly less ampliated past the median, and nearly straight thence to 

 the basal angle if viewed from above ; the punctures on the elytra are 

 slightly deeper and broader, the pectus is very hairy ; the penulti- 

 mate abdominal segment is broader than the ante-penultimate, and 

 the terminal one is very broad and convex, much broader than in 

 S. tumida ; the tarsi of the anterior legs are missing in the male 

 example sent to me under the name of S. capensis by Herr Brenske, 

 but the upper tooth of the intermediate and posterior claws is longer 

 than the lower, a little more robust, and not emarginate underneath ; 

 it is when the genital armature is examined that the difference 

 between S. fraudulenta and S. tumida is strongly marked. In the 

 last-named species the branches of the forceps are somewhat 

 slender, of equal length, and symmetrical (pi. li., fig. 58), whereas 

 in the former the shape is almost similar to that of S. vicaria 

 (pi. xliii., fig. 54), but the left branch of the forceps is narrower 

 and sharply acuminate at the tip. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 7 J mm. 



Locality not recorded. 



It might be that the upper tooth of the anterior claws is shorter 

 and more slender than the lower, in which case this species would 

 come near S. scabiosa, which it somewhat resembles also, but in 



