1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa, 261 



laterally, and having a minute hair in each puncture ; penultimate 

 segment broader than the preceding, last one not quite half as wide 

 as the penultimate, slightly convex ; pectus with some long, but not 

 very dense, appressed hairs ; anterior tibiae sharply tri- dentate 

 outwardly ; tarsi very long, claws long, slender, simple. The clasps 

 of the genital armature are absolutely like those of Schizonycha saga. 

 Female unknown. 



Length 10-12 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Gen. SYNGENESCHIZA, Brensk., 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., lix., 1898, p. 381. 



Very near Schizonycha, the head has only one frontal, arcuate, 

 sharp keel, without any transverse occipital keel or prominence, the 

 head is plainly broader than the clypeus, the eyes are very large ; 

 the antennae are 9-jointed, and the third joint is very elongated and 

 longer than the following two taken together, the club of the male is 

 only slightly shorter than the pedicel ; claws cleft at tip as in 

 Schizonycha. 



Syngeneschiza omrramba, n. spec. 



Very pale testaceous, sub-livid, but with the sutural part of the 

 elytra slightly, and the frontal part deeply infuscate ; antennae and 

 legs of the same colour as the body ; clypeus parabolic, but slightly 

 truncate in the anterior part, genae sub-transverse, eyes very large, 

 frontal carina very sharp, little arcuate, both the clypeus and frontal 

 part are covered with broad, irregular, briefly setigerous punctures ; 

 antennal club of male a little shorter than the whole pedicel, and 

 slightly attenuated towards the tip, third joint of pedicel as long as 

 the three following taken together ; prothorax ampliate and rounded 

 laterally towards the middle part, and only very slightly more 

 attenuated in the anterior than in the posterior part, the angles of 

 which are not rounded, the punctures are moderately closely set and 

 not rugose ; on the parallel elytra the punctures are somewhat 

 broad, and separated from each other by an interval slightly 

 narrower than their own diameter ; pygidium fairly deeply but not 

 closely set ; penultimate abdominal segment nearly twice as broad 

 as the one preceding ; tarsi long, robust, upper tooth of claws 

 longer but of nearly equal width than the lower, anterior tibiae tri- 

 dentate. 



Closely allied to S. tarsata, Brsk., the type of the genus, but 

 different. From my notes this species is identical with a co-type of 



