

1904.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 245 



little ampliated laterally before the median part, deeply punctured 

 and with the hair in the punctures quite distinct ; pygidium some- 

 what closely punctate, except at the apex which is slightly coriaceous ; 

 abdomen slightly impressed in the centre at the base, penultimate 

 segment much broader than the one preceding, last segment wide, 

 swollen ; pectus with a moderately long, appressed pubescence ; 

 anterior tibiae with the basal tooth almost obliterated, tarsi long, 

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

 lower. 



Shape, size, and colour of S. indotata, from which it differs mainly 

 by the sculpture of the prothorax, which is closely scabrose all over ; 

 the shape of the genital armature is almost identical with that of S. 

 fatidica, which it also closely resembles, but the left branch of the 

 forceps is somewhat broader. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



The type, the only example I have seen, is labelled " Natal." 



SCHIZONYCHA INDOTATA, n. Spec, 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 67. 



Chestnut-brown, with the head fuscous and the prothorax rusty- 

 red ; clypeus broadly truncate in front, but with the sides well 

 rounded, not emarginate in the centre, clypeal carina moderately 

 arcuate, suture distinct, basal carina distinct but not very sharp ; 

 the part behind the basal carina is smooth, but the frontal part is 

 plainly granular, and the clypeus covered with contiguous, some- 

 what scabrose punctures ; prothorax very little obliquely narrowed 

 laterally from the median to the apical part, nearly straight from the 

 middle to the basal angle, but still having a slight sinuation above 

 the angle which is very sharp ; the punctures are granular and very 

 closely set in the anterior part, larger, cicatricose, and set moderately 

 close to each other in the posterior ; there is a faint, small, smooth 

 space in the centre of the disk ; scutellum pluri-punctate laterally ; 

 elytra elongate, sub-cylindrical, deeply punctured, each puncture, 

 like those on the head and prothorax bearing a minute greyish hair, 

 and separated from each other by a space equal in width to their 

 diameter ; pygidium with scattered, shallow, round punctures, but 

 with the apical part impunctate ; punctures on the sides of the 

 abdomen squamulose, but the penultimate segment which is much 

 wider than the one preceding, has a few long hairs, and the meta- 

 sternum is villose ; tarsi very long, upper tooth of claws shorter than 

 the lower, and more slender ; basal outer tooth of anterior tibiae 

 almost obliterated. 



