1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 263 



than in the posterior part ; pygidium closely punctate, the punctures 

 squamigerous ; abdominal segments with squamiform appressed 

 hairs on the sides ; pectus very densely pubescent ; anterior tibiae 

 tri-dentate, tarsi long ; lower tooth of all the claws sharply truncate, 

 the upper one long and incurved. 



Length 13|- mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Melsetter). 



Gen. SPATHOSCHIZA, Arr., 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. ix., 1902. 



Labial palpi inserted laterally on the outer face of the mentum ; 

 last joint of maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical, truncate at the apex ; 

 clypeus emarginate in front, straight laterally, but slightly attenuate 

 towards the apex, with the anterior angles sharp, concave in the 

 anterior part, separated from the front by an arcuate keel, and 

 having in addition a median frontal one ; eyes very large ; antennae 

 10-jointed, club long in the male, third joint longer than the fourth, 

 penultimate one of pedicel long ; body slender, elongate ; claws cleft 

 underneath at the tip as in Schizonycha, but having also a sub- 

 vertical median tooth and a quadrate basal one. 



Spathoschiza debilis, Arr., 

 Loc. cit., p. 96. 



Pale testaceous, with the head somewhat reddish, antennal club 

 flavescent, briefly but not densely pilose, the hairs are flavescent' 

 and somewhat longer on the under side ; clypeus and anterior frontal 

 part roughly punctate, the occipital part only slightly punctate, the 

 eyes are very large and the genal canthus very slender ; prothorax 

 ampliated and rounded laterally past the middle part and not wider 

 across the base than across the anterior part, finely crenulate and 

 with the posterior angles sharp, closely and somewhat deeply 

 punctate, all the punctures bearing a short, setulose hair ; elytra 

 cylindrical, very little wider at the base than the base of the pro- 

 thorax ; covered with deep, equi-distant, setigerous punctures 

 separated by an interval about equal in width to their own diameter ; 

 pygidium deeply and somewhat closely punctate, fringed with long 

 hairs ; under side deeply and somewhat closely punctured all over ; 

 second abdominal segment broader than the third ; hind basal tarsal 

 joint much shorter than the second. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



