1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 237 



tures slightly cicatricose in the anterior part, separated by a space 

 equal to their diameter, in the centre there is a somewhat plain, 

 smooth line having the appearance of being slightly raised ; 

 scutellum with a marginal row of deep punctures, a basal one, 

 and two or three punctures transversely set ; elytra elongated, 

 normally sinuate laterally, deeply punctured with the intervals non- 

 coriaceous, and the hairs in the punctures extremely small ; 

 pygidium covered with moderately deep, sub-cicatricose, equally 

 distant punctures separated from each other by a space equal to 

 their diameter ; pectus not densely hairy ; abdominal segments with 

 long hairs in the punctures ; penultimate segment almost twice as 

 broad as the one preceding, last one flat, moderately broad ; upper 

 tooth of all the claws shorter and more slender than the lower in the 

 male, the only sex known to me. 



Length 20 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hob. Ovampoland (Omrramba). 



Schizonycha spuria, n. spec, 

 Plate LI., fig. 74. 



Black, moderately shining, palpi, antennae, and legs piceous ; 

 clypeus blunt in front and very slightly sinuate in the middle, 

 clypeal carina arcuate, suture distinct, straight, basal one not 

 sinuate, surface covered with scabrose, foveolate, nearly contiguous 

 punctures bearing each a very distinct squamose greyish hair ; 

 prothorax moderately ampliated laterally at about the median part, 

 much less diagonally attenuated thence towards the base than 

 towards the anterior part, basal angle sharp, outer margin plainly 

 serrate and fringed often with dense fulvous hairs, surface covered 

 with irregular, transverse, slightly raised smooth folds in the intervals 

 of which are some slightly scabrose fovese bearing each an appressed, 

 very distinct squamose greyish hair ; scutellum raised in the centre, 

 the lateral punctures squamose ; elytra not much elongated, 

 cylindrical, not sinuate laterally, covered with deep punctures 

 bearing each a conspicuous squamose greyish hair, from the base to 

 past the median part the intervals are raised, and coriaceous ; 

 pygidium impunctate ; pectus clothed with long, moderately dense, 

 light fulvous hairs ; abdominal segments with a few hairs, and some 

 squamose greyish scales laterally, the two intermediate segments 

 depressed in the centre, penultimate one a little wider than the one 

 preceding, last one moderately wide, flat ; tarsi moderately long, 

 upper tooth of all the claws shorter and much more slender than the 

 lower. 



