1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 241 



thence to the sharp, basal angle, closely punctate and somewhat 

 scabrose in the anterior part and on the sides, but with the punctures 

 a little more scattered and not scabrose in the posterior, in the 

 discoidal part is a smooth space, sometimes very plain ; scutellum 

 with two series of punctures ; elytra elongate, sub-cylindrical, 

 punctures deep ; pygidium with shallow punctures separated from 

 each other by a smooth space broader than their own diameter in 

 the male, much deeper in the female ; sides of abdomen, coxae 

 episterns, and metasternum covered with very closely set elongate 

 white scales ; penultimate abdominal segment a little wider than the 

 preceding one, ultimate segment moderately broad, slightly swollen, 

 and more punctured in the female than in the male ; upper tooth of 

 anterior claws much more slender than the lower, and nearly of 

 equal length in both sexes, club of antennae long, but a little shorter 

 in the female than in the male. 



Length 13-15 mm. ; width 6^-7 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls, Sebakwe). 



The chestnut-brown examples resemble much S. profuga, but the 

 species is easily recognised by the white scales covering the sides of 

 the abdomen and metasternum, the coxae and episterns. 



SCHIZONYCHA SALISBURJANA, n. spec, 



Plate XLIII., fig. 38. 



Light brick-red, with the elytra pale testaceous, clypeus slightly 

 infuscate, antennae flavescent ; clypeus broadly rounded laterally, 

 obtuse in front, nearly straight in the male, feebly sinuate in the 

 female, clypeal keel very high, broadly triangular, reaching the 

 outer margins in the male, not in the female, vertex of head 

 conspicuously keeled, surface covered with shallow punctures in 

 the male and deep ones in the female ; prothorax of the normal 

 shape and very plainly serrate laterally, covered with small cicatri- 

 cose punctures, nearly equi-distant in the centre of the disk in both 

 sexes, and slightly asperous along the anterior margin ; scutellum 

 punctate ; elytra cylindrical in the male, moderately ampliated 

 laterally in the female, covered with equi-distant punctures bearing 

 a minute greyish hair, and separated by a smooth space equal in 

 width to their diameter ; pygidium somewhat broadly and deeply 

 pitted, penultimate abdominal segment one-third wider than the 

 antepenultimate one in both sexes ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate out- 

 wardly, tarsi very long ; upper claw of all the tarsi more slender 

 than the lower one in both sexes. 



Length 14-15 mm. ; width 6-7-J- mm. 



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