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punctures bearing each a most minute hair, intervals narrower than 

 the punctures, and slightly raised along the sutural part only ; 

 pygidium covered with closely set, somewhat deep punctures similar 

 in either sex ; abdomen of the male slightly depressed in the middle, 

 penultimate abdominal segment not wider than the one preceding, 

 last one two-thirds as broad as the penultimate, and convex in both 

 sexes ; pectus moderately densely villose ; tarsi long, upper tooth of 

 all the claws shorter and more slender than the lower. The female 

 is distinguished from the male merely by the more convex abdomen 

 and the slightly shorter tarsi. 



Length 15-J—16 mm. ; width 7£- 7f mm. 



Hab. Southern Bhodesia (Manica). 



Schizonycha affinis, Bohem.,* 

 Plate LI., fig. 66. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 103. 

 S. oblong a y Bohem., loc. cit., p. 102. 



Testaceous, with the clypeal part slightly infuscate, palpi and 

 antennae sub-flavescent, club very long in the male ; clypeus slightly 

 blunt in front in the male, semicircular in the female, beset, like the 

 frontal part, with deep non-coalescing sub-fo'veolate punctures, basal 

 part impunctate along the carina, frontal carina transverse, distinctly 

 bi-sinuate, no clypeal suture, basal carina also bi-sinuate in the male, 

 less so in the female, prothorax ampliated laterally past the median 

 part, and with the basal angles distinctly rounded, covered all over 

 with equi-distant, somewhat closely set, round punctures, which are, 

 however, faintly scabrose along the anterior margin ; outer margin 

 indistinctly serrulate ; scutellum with a marginal row of punctures ; 

 elytra elongated, sinuate laterally before the median part, normally 

 punctured, and with the hair in each puncture hardly visible ; 

 pygidium beset with round punctures nearly similar in both sexes, 

 but varying in number and closeness in individuals ; pectus with 

 long, appressed flavescent hairs ; abdominal segments with hairs 

 longer and more numerous in the male, the penultimate segment is 

 broader than the one preceding in both sexes, the ultimate one is 

 transverse, narrow, and depressed in the male, bulging and wider in 

 the female, the apical margin is sinuate in both but more deeply in 

 the male ; tarsi long, upper tooth of anterior claw shorter by one- 

 half than the lower and not so robust, that of the intermediate and 

 posterior legs longer than the lower and equally robust. This species 



* In the Explanation of the Plate, in vol. xii., p. 908, this species is erroneously- 

 named 8. perfidiosa. 



