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which the head is much narrower ; the pro-thorax, however, has the* 

 same shape in both species. 

 In Herr Brenske's Collection. 



Schizonycha villosa, Brensk., 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 367. 



Brick-red, shining, prothorax a little redder than the elytra; 

 clypeus plainly semicircular, but obtuse for a very short space in 

 the anterior part, and with the margin distinctly reflexed all round, 

 the clypeal carina is almost transverse, the basal one is nearly as 

 much raised as the clypeal, and the surface of the head, with the 

 exception of the base, is covered with cicatricose punctures some- 

 what asperous in the frontal part ; prothorax ampliated and rounded' 

 laterally at about the median part, which slopes so much downwards 

 that if seen from above it does not seem to be narrowed towards the 

 sharp basal angle, it is covered with round punctures somewhat . 

 irregularly scattered in the discoidal part, but set nearer to each 

 other on the sides, the outer margin is very slightly crenulate, and 

 the hairs are somewhat long ; scutellum pluri-punctate on each side ; 

 elytra somewhat short, and with the punctures deep and each bear- 

 ing a minute greyish hair ; pygidium with only a few scattered round 

 punctures ; pectus densely pubescent in the male, and with a few 

 appressed squamulose hairs in the female ; femora somewhat densely 

 hairy ; tarsi moderately long, claws very diverging, upper tooth 

 curved, much longer and more curved than the lower, which is very 

 short, sub- vertical, and also sub-median; the basal hind tarsal joint 

 is very short in the male, and proportionately less so in the female. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Maritzburg). 



Schizonycha dissensa, n. spec, 

 Plate XLIIL, fig. 53. 



Black, not much shining, elytra and legs occasionally deep fuscous - 

 brown; antennae and palpi piceous-red ; punctures on the upper side 

 bearing a very minute greyish hair ; head small in proportion to the 

 width of the prothorax, clypeus not much arcuate laterally near the 

 base, but more so towards the anterior part, which is somewhat blunt 

 but not quite truncate, the clypeal carina projects triangularly in the 

 median part ; the basal carina is distinct, but not very sharp, and the 

 whole surface is covered with contiguous, foveolate, shallow punctures 

 somewhat asperous on the frontal part; prothorax not ampliated. 



