1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 251 



versely; prothorax convex, not attenuate laterally from the non- 

 ampliated median part to the base, only slightly sinuate above the 

 basal angle, a little narrowed in the anterior part, which is plainly 

 serrate, but the margin of the posterior part is simple, it is covered 

 with scattered punctures somewhat irregular in the discoidal part, 

 but set more closely along the sides, especially along the anterior 

 margin where they are slightly scabrose ; scutellum with a few lateral 

 punctures, elytra covered with deep punctures separated from each 

 other by a space a little wider than their own diameter, and bearing 

 each a squamose hair of the same size as those of the head and 

 prothorax; pygidium irregularly plicate longitudinally in the middle, 

 coriaceous, and with scattered squamose hairs ; sides of abdominal 

 segments, and metasternum somewhat thickly squamose, penulti- 

 mate abdominal segment wider than the antepenultimate, anterior 

 tibiae bi-dentate, tarsi moderately long, upper tooth of all tarsi very 

 minute and very short, lower claw robust ; basal joint of hind tarsi 

 short, second one one-third longer. 



Length 14-15 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony. My two examples of this species w 7 ere 

 collected by Zeyher. The genital armature is not unlike that of 

 S. vicaria, but shorter, and the left clasp is considerably wider at 

 apex. 



SCHIZONYCHA VICAKIA, n. spec, 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 54. 



Piceous-black, antennae and tarsi piceous-red ; all the punctures 

 bear a white squamose hair ; head somewhat small, clypeus broadly 

 truncate, not sinuate in the centre. This species is similar in shape to 

 S. indotata and S. faticlica, but its nearest ally is S. nigricomis, from 

 which it is distinguished by the punctures on the prothorax being more 

 cicatricose, more closely set, more scabrose in the anterior part, and 

 separated on the posterior by irregular, slightly raised, smooth walls ; 

 the scutellum has also three or four punctures on each side, but the 

 punctures on the elytra are deeper, and the juxta-sutural space 

 is more coriaceous ; the penultimate abdominal segment is wider 

 than the one preceding and has a few long hairs, but the squamose 

 hairs on the sides of the segments are not so plainly squamose, and 

 the metasternum is densely villose ; the anterior tibiae are bi-dentate 

 like those of S. nigricomis but more briefly sinuate above the basal 

 tooth ; the tarsi are longer, and the upper tooth of the claws is more 

 deeply cleft but also very slender, and, lastly, the two genital arma- 

 tures vary in shape. 



Length 15J mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



