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



In general appearance this species resembles S. spuria and S. 

 rufina, but the pro-thorax is not narrowed laterally between the 

 median and the basal part as in these two species, and the shape of 

 the genital armature is also different. 



Length 17 mm. ; width 9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (? Namaqualand). 



Schizonycha valvata, Brensk. , 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 353. 



This species, described from a female example, is very closely 

 allied to S. noscitata, but while in S. noscitata the basal tooth of the 

 anterior tibiae- is very distinct, it is almost obliterated in S. valvata, 

 although a female ; the shape and sculpture of the head are similar, 

 the basal carina has also a distinct groove ; the punctures are 

 nearly the same, but a little more closely set on the discoidal part 

 which bears a longitudinal smooth line, but has no areolet ; the 

 scutellum and the elytra are identical, and the hair in the punctures 

 is small but distinct ; the pygidium is punctured alike, but in the 

 centre there is a broad, shallow, depressed, longitudinal band, and 

 also a small, lateral impression on each side of the base ; the last 

 segment of the abdomen is moderately broad, transverse, and not 

 swollen ; the tarsi are as long as in the male (the hind ones are 

 missing in the type), the upper tooth of the anterior and intermediate 

 claws is deeply cleft, narrower and shorter than the lower. 



Length 17 J mm. ; width 9 mm. 



The type is the only example of this species which I have seen, 

 and is labelled " S. Af." "Coll. Jekel." 



Schizonycha eugosa, Brensk. 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 353. 



Chestnut-brown, with the elytra somewhat light testaceous; 

 antennae and palpi sub-flavescent ; clypeus only slightly blunted in 

 front, and somewhat narrow owing to the strongly arcuate clypeal 

 suture ; the suture is distinct, and so is the basal carina which is 

 grooved, the surface of the clypeus is closely scrobiculato-foveate, 

 and the frontal one granulose ; prothorax scarcely ampliated laterally 

 in the middle, nearly straight thence towards the basal angle which 

 projects, plainly serrate laterally from the anterior angle to about 

 the median part, and covered all over with small, closely set 

 granules, giving it a very scabrose appearance, supra-basal folds con- 

 spicuously raised ; scutellum pluri-punctate ; elytra elongated, a 



