238 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Female unknown. 



This species resembles very closely S. qucesita, the upper tooth of 

 the claws is, however, slender and shorter than the lower, and the 

 shape of the anterior claws of the male, and also of the genital 

 armature, is very different. The apical point of the branches of the 

 forceps is bent almost at right angles, and the lateral emargination 

 is much more densely hairy than represented in the figure. 



Length 12-13 mm. ; width 7-7J mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Eustenburg, Lydenburg.) 



Schizonycha natalensis, Brensk., 

 Plate LI., fig 71. 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 352. 



Male : Piceous, or chestnut-brown, somewhat shining ; clypeus 

 sinuate in front, clypeal carina arcuate, suture plain, no basal carina, 

 surface of the clypeus closely foveolate, the foveae more scrobiculate 

 on the frontal part ; prothorax not much ampliated laterally in the 

 median part and only slightly sinuate laterally towards the base 

 the outer angle of which is sharp, the outer margin is serrate, and 

 the ciliate hairs neither numerous nor long, the surface is covered 

 with deep, round, sub-foveate punctures separated from each 

 other by a space equal to their diameter, and a little wider in the 

 median posterior part of the disk than on the anterior or on the 

 sides, the walls are very slightly and irregularly raised and smooth ; 

 scutellum with a lateral row of punctures ; elytra not much 

 elongated, somewhat ampliated laterally past the median part, in 

 both sexes, covered with deep, closely set punctures separated by 

 a space smaller than their diameter and bearing each a most minute 

 hair, the intervals in the discoidal part are slightly coriaceous ; 

 pygidium with deep, round, broadly scattered punctures ; pectus 

 with only a few appressed hairs ; abdominal segments closely 

 punctured except along the median part, where it is very little 

 depressed, penultimate segment broader than the one preceding, last 

 one moderately broad and somewhat convex ; tarsi somewhat long, 

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

 lower. 



Length 12-14 mm. ; width 6|— 7-J- mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Female differs from the male in the prothorax being a little 

 more ampliate laterally, and having in the centre a somewhat plain, 

 impunctate, longitudinal line, the elytra are more convex and much 



