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laterally in the median part, and nearly straight from there to the 

 basal angle, sharply crenular along the outer margin which is beset 

 with very long, fulvous setose hairs, the anterior part and the sides 

 are covered with very closely set, deep, somewhat asperous foveolate 

 punctures, more scattered and a little broader in the median and 

 posterior part of the disk which has a somewhat conspicuous longi- 

 tudinal median smooth space, with several irregular smooth areolets 

 on each side of it ; scutellum with one uninterrupted row of punc- 

 tures along the outer edge ; elytra not much convex, punctures deep, 

 equi-distant, intervals smooth ; pygidium with numerous small 

 punctures ; punctures on the abdominal segment and on the meta- 

 sternum bearing each a long fulvous hair forming a dense pubescence 

 on the pectus ; penultimate abdominal segment wider than the ante- 

 penultimate, last one narrow; tarsi moderately long, teeth of the 

 claws very deeply cleft, upper one as robust as the lower, longer and 

 plainly emarginate underneath towards the tip ; the hind tarsi are 

 very little shorter in the female than in the male, in which sex the 

 basal joint is very little shorter than the second, whereas it is plainly 

 longer in the female ; the shape of the genital armature is unlike all 

 others, it is the only one in which the symmetrical lobes are as 

 sharply acuminate at the tip. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 15 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



This species will be easily recognised owing to its small head and 

 very little convex elytra. 



SCHIZONYCHA INFARSA, n. spec. 



Female : Dark chestnut-brown, shining, tibiae and tarsi piceous- 

 red, antennae and palpi ferruginous ; clypeus sub-truncate in front 

 with the median part sinuate, the anterior margin is sharply 

 reflexed, the clypeal carina very arcuate and strongly reflexed, and 

 behind it there is a deeply impressed transverse line, also slightly 

 arcuate in the median part, the basal carina is distinct, and the space 

 behind it smooth, but the rest of the head is covered with very rough, 

 large scrobiculate punctures ; prothorax ampliated laterally towards 

 the median part, but very little attenuate thence towards the basal 

 angle which is sharp, but plainly narrowed in the anterior part, 

 sharply serrate, very convex and having the normal fringe of some- 

 what long and not closely set setae along theouter margin, it is covered 

 with deep round punctures, enclosing a smaller pit, these punctures 

 are more closely set along the sides, where they coalesce and 

 become almost scrobiculate, but the discoidal ones are separated 



