1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 247 



tudinal band ; scutellum with a duplicate lateral row of punctures ; 

 elytra deeply punctate ; pygidium with deep, somewhat closely set 

 foveolate punctures ; all abdominal segments deeply and closely 

 punctured all over, penultimate one broader than the preceding, last 

 one very swollen ; tarsi long ; upper claw of anterior ones much 

 narrower than the lower, and slightly shorter ; that of the posterior 

 and intermediate longer and very little less slender. Female 

 unknown. 



The sculpture of the prothorax is not unlike that of S. imncticollis, 

 which it somewhat resembles, but in the latter the punctures in the 

 posterior part are not divided by smooth walls, and the prothorax 

 itself is much more ampliated in the middle, and distinctly narrowed 

 towards the base. The shape of the genital armature is also very 

 different. 



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



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



SCHIZONYCHA CAFFRA, n. Spec. 



Testaceous, with the head and prothorax somewhat brick-red, club 

 of antennae flavescent, shining, and having a minute hair in every 

 puncture, basal part of prothorax with a fringe of long navous 

 pubescence ; pectus very densely villose ; clypeus truncate in the 

 anterior part and only very slightly sinuate there, clypeal carina 

 arcuate, basal one somewhat sharp but not much raised, surface of 

 the clypeus and frontal part cicatricoso-punctate ; prothorax not 

 narrowed laterally from the median to the basal part, but slightly 

 sinuate above the basal angle, which is sharp ; the outer margin is 

 finely crenulate serrate, and the cilise are long, it slopes a little more 

 than usual towards the anterior part, and is covered with equi- 

 distant round punctures slightly narrower in the anterior than in the 

 posterior part, and separated by a smooth space equal in width to 

 their own diameter ; scutellum with only a few punctures ; elytra 

 moderately elongate, deeply punctured ; pygidium sub-coriaceous, 

 and sprinkled with a few shallow punctures ; tarsi long, upper tooth 

 of anterior tibiae very fine, not deeply cleft, and thus very much 

 shorter in the male than the lower one, while in the intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi it is longer and not more slender than the 

 lower, which is sub-perpendicular ; in the female the tarsi are 

 much shorter, and the claws of the anterior and posterior legs 

 are similar to those of the hind ones in the male ; the penultimate 

 joint of the abdominal segment is a little wider than the one pre- 

 ceding. 



