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interval slightly raised along the sutural part only, hairs minute ; 

 pygidium covered with round foveate punctures, which are somewhat 

 closely set and similar in both the sexes ; abdomen only very slightly 

 impressed in the centre in the male, and with the segments nearly 

 as numerously punctured in the median part as on the sides, penul- 

 timate segment as broad as the antepenultimate, last one narrow 

 and transverse in both the sexes and somewhat swollen ; pectus 

 with a few villose hairs springing from foveolate punctures ; tarsi 

 long, those of the female almost as long as those of the male, upper 

 tooth of anterior claw more slender than the lower but equally long, 

 that of the intermediate and posterior claws equally long, but only 

 very slightly more slender. 



Length 14-15-| mm. ; width 7J- 8 mm. 



Through the courtesy of Dr. H. Kolbe, of the Berlin Museum, 

 I have been able to compare a typical species of S. africana, Klug, 

 nee. Casteln., which almost completely resembles the present species, 

 I have unfortunately not been able to examine its genital armature. 

 That of S. vaalensis is very singular. So far as I know, however, 

 the habitat of this species is restricted to the neighbourhood of the 

 Vaal Eiver. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Vaal River, Barkly West). 



SCHIZONYCHA MANICANA, n. Spec, 



Plate LI., fig. 72. 



Head and prothorax testaceous-red or sub-ferruginous, elytra and 

 abdomen very pale testaceous, legs chestnut-brown, club of antennae 

 long in the male ; clypeus truncate, plainly sinuate, and with the 

 sides oblique, clypeal carina triangularly arcuate, suture distinct, 

 basal carina very sharp, not sinuate, the clypeus is scrobiculate- 

 punctate, the frontal part foveolate with the intervals plainly granu- 

 lose ; prothorax conspicuously serrate laterally, ampliated there in 

 the centre, but only moderately narrowed thence to the sharp basal 

 angle, covered with cicatricose punctures, smaller, very scabrose and 

 closely set along the anterior part, the punctures in the discoidal 

 part, and reaching as far as the base, are broader, and although 

 slightly irregularly set, are divided by a smooth space nearly 

 equal in width to the diameter of the punctures, and there is in both 

 sexes a longitudinal smooth, raised line in the posterior discoidal 

 part, the hairs on the head and prothorax are very minute, but the 

 fringe of setose hairs along the outer margins of the prothorax is long ; 

 scutellum with two lateral rows of punctures ; elytra elongated, very 

 little ampliated laterally in both sexes, deeply punctured, the 



