1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 229* 



from each other, are somewhat irregularly scattered, and are divided 

 by a space somewhat wider than their own diameter, the basal 

 margin is not fringed with hairs ; scutellum with two somewhat 

 irregular lateral rows of punctures ; elytra convex, a little ampliated 

 laterally past the median part covered with moderately shallow 

 punctures, somewhat closely set yet separated from each other by a 

 space equal to their own diameter, and bearing each a most minute 

 hair, these punctures are not round and are slightly cicatricose ; edge 

 of propygidium closely punctulate, pygidium covered with deep, round, 

 closely set punctures ; pectus very slightly pubescent ; abdominal 

 segments covered, except in the median part, with very closely set, 

 setiferous, scabrose punctures, the penultimate segment, which is 

 a little wider than the one preceding, has a basal transverse median 

 carinate groove, and the punctures on the side are broader than on 

 the other segments, and not scabrose ; anterior tibiae strongly tri- 

 dentate ; tarsi short, anterior claws strongly developed, upper one 

 as long and nearly as robust as the lower one ; basal joint of hind 

 tarsi as long as the second. 



Male unknown. 



This species has a short, robust facies. 



Length 17 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



SCHIZONYCHA NEUTEA, n. Spec. 



Female : Rusty-red, with the elytra and abdomen redder, shining,, 

 the punctures on the upper side bear a most minute hair, antennae 

 reddish-brown ; head small, clypeus oblique laterally towards the 

 anterior part, which is truncate in the centre, and the outer part< 

 rounded, the clypeal carina is moderately arcuate, the clypeal suture 

 short and close to the carina, the basal one is distinct and projects 

 slightly in the middle towards the frontal part, and the surface of 

 the clypeus and frontal part is somewhat closely cicatricose punctate 

 except along the clypeal suture and the basal carina ; prothorax broad, 

 not ampliated laterally in the middle, not narrowed thence towards 

 the base, but nevertheless very slightly sinuate above the basal angle, 

 the outer margin is plainly serrate and normally setulose, and the 

 punctures on the surface are very scattered, but a little more closely 

 set along the median anterior part, they are round, very little cica- 

 tricose, there is distinct median longitudinal smooth space, and the 

 interspaces are smooth ; scutellum broad, punctate laterally ; elytra 

 ampliated from a third of the length ; punctures broad and deep, 

 the suture is infuscate ; pygidium not distinctly punctulate ;. 



