1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 239' 



more ampliated laterally, and the upper tooth of all the claws is as 

 long and as robust as the lower one. The original description was 

 made from a female example. 



Schizonycha BussuLA, Bohem., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 12. 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 100. 



The description of the two series of S. natalensis suits exactly this 

 species, the male, however, has quite differently shaped genital clasps, 

 and the club is much more elongated ; in the female the longitudinal 

 impunctate smooth band of the prothorax is much more marked than 

 in the same sex of S. natalensis. Boheman's type is a female. 



Length 9-11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Johannesburg). 



Schizonycha spectabilis, n. spec, 

 Plate XLIIL, fig. 39. 



Testaceous-red, or chestnut-brown with the elytra and abdomen 

 testaceous, very shiny ; club of antennas flavescent ; all the punc- 

 tures on the upper side and the abdomen bear a most minute hair r 

 and the margins of the prothorax, which are strongly serrate, have a 

 fringe of ciliate hairs, the pectus is clothed with moderately long r 

 flavescent hairs which are appressed, and are somewhat more 

 squamose on the coxae and the episterns ; the frontal part is 

 roughly scabrose-foveolate, the clypeus blunt and slightly sinuate 

 in the centre, the clypeal carina is sinuate in the median part in 

 the male, not in the female, moderately arcuate, and the median 

 part of the suture is distinct, the basal carina is sharp, and the 

 space behind smooth ; the prothorax is not much ampliate laterally 

 in the middle, and only very slightly sinuate thence towards the 

 sharp basal angle, in the anterior part it is covered with cicatricose 

 irregular fossules, has a transverse median impunctate space and a 

 supra-basal parallel one, and the interval between the two spaces is 

 filled with cicatricose, irregular fossules ; scutellum with two or 

 three punctures on each side in the male, impunctate in the female \ 

 elytra elongate, punctures deep ; propygidium with two transverse r 

 apical rows of small punctures ; pygidium almost glabrous, with 

 scattered, somewhat shallow punctures, in the male, the punctures 

 more closely set, more numerous, and deeper in the female ; penul- 

 timate abdominal segment not broader than the one preceding,, 

 ultimate one swollen in both sexes ; tarsi very long ; upper claw 



