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of the whole head deeply punctate ; prothorax ampliated and 

 rounded laterally in the posterior part the angles of which are 

 also rounded, outer margins serrulate, surface asperous-punctate in 

 the anterior part and deeply but not closely cicatricose-punctate in 

 the discoidal and also on the sides, the basal smooth ridges are quite 

 plain, and each puncture bears a minute hair ; scutellum sparingly 

 punctate ; elytra slightly ampliated laterally past the sinuated part, 

 covered with somewhat deep punctures bearing each a small 

 greyish hair and separated from each other by a space about equal 

 to their own diameter ; pygidium only sparsely punctate ; second 

 abdominal segment plainly broader than the third ; pectus sparingly 

 hairy ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate ; upper tooth of all the claws more 

 robust and longer than the lower. 



The genital armature of the male is almost similar to that of 

 Schizonycha dissensa, pi. xliii., fig. 10. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hob. Natal (Durban, Newcastle) ; Transvaal (Pietersburg). 



Atys inscita, n. spec. 



Very similar in general appearance to A. liybrida, but differs in 

 the shape of the clypeal and frontal keels, the first is very little 

 arcuate, but the suture immediately behind it is produced into a 

 short, acute triangle the apex of which is continued as a longitudinal, 

 only slightly raised keel meeting the strongly median sinuate part of 

 the occipital one ; the antennal club of the male is longer than the 

 pedicel, the fourth joint of the male is very much longer than the 

 third and consists plainly of two fused joints, and the fifth and sixth 

 are strongly compressed; in the female, however, these two joints are 

 much more distinctly seen, and it may safely be said that they are 

 not entirely fused ; the prothorax has a broad lateral impression on 

 each side of the anterior part and the punctures are smaller and 

 more closely set, and also slightly more cicatricose on the dorsal 

 part ; the second abdominal segment is wider than the third, and 

 the segments are more pubescent in the male than in the female. 

 The genital clasps of the male are shaped somewmat in the manner 

 of those of A. liybrida, but they are hardly emarginate in the inner 

 part. 



Length 10 J mm. ; width 5J-5^ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg) ; Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). 



Atys in vert a, n. spec. 

 Light brick-red, with the elytra paler ; the hairs in the punctures 

 are extremely minute ; clypeus truncate, very slightly sinuate in the 



