1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 243 



ampliate laterally past the median part, and only very slightly 

 attenuate obliquely thence to the sharp basal angle, covered with 

 nearly equi-distant round punctures, deeper on the sides, the 

 margins of which are not very distinctly crenulate ; scutellum 

 covered with broad punctures except at the apex ; elytra a little 

 ampliated laterally in the posterior part, deeply punctured ; pygidium 

 covered on each side with foveolate punctures, leaving, however, a 

 longitudinal, narrow, median smooth space ; abdominal segments 

 closely punctured except for a narrow, median space, each puncture 

 bearing a hair a little longer than those on the upper side, penulti- 

 mate segment broader than the preceding, apical one swollen ; tarsi 

 long, upper claw of the anterior tarsi very slender and shorter than 

 the lower. 



Female unknown. 



Length 11 J mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hob. ? Cape Colony. 



SCHIZONYCHA NOSCITATA, U. spec, 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 43. 



Chestnut-brown ; head and prothorax ferruginous, each puncture 

 on the upper side bears a whitish, small, yet conspicuous hair, the 

 cilias along the outer margins of the prothorax and of the anterior 

 part of the elytra are long, and the pectus is very pubescent ; club of 

 antennae flavescent ; frontal part of the head and also the clypeus 

 very closely and deeply punctured, the punctures non-granulose, the 

 former is blunt in the median anterior part, but hardly sinuate, the 

 clypeal carina is very arcuate, and somewhat angular in the middle ; 

 the basal carina is not much raised, and is grooved ; prothorax 

 moderately rounded laterally at about the median part, very little 

 narrowed, and not sinuate thence to the basal angle, covered with 

 irregular, round, cicatricose punctures set somewhat closely along 

 the anterior margin and the sides, but much more scattered and 

 broader in the posterior, and having there a median, smooth, some- 

 what raised space, and a few smaller similar areas across ; the outer 

 margins are serrate, more strongly so in the anterior than in the 

 posterior part ; scutellum with two irregular lateral rows of punc- 

 tures ; elytra ampliate laterally from about the median part, the 

 punctures deep ; pygidium with scattered, fairly deep punctures ; 

 abdominal segments as closely and numerously punctured in the 

 median part as on the sides, penultimate one wider than the pre- 

 ceding, last one broad, very swollen ; tarsi long. The claws are 

 missing in my male example. The female is unknown. 



