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SCHIZONYCHA COXSUETA, n. sp. 



Male : Head and prothorax dark chestnut, elytra chestnut-red, 

 antennae rusty-red with the club slightly flavescent ; clypeus arcuate 

 very slightly blunted in the centre of the anterior part, clypeal carina 

 not much arcuate, frontal suture very shallow and narrow, vertex 

 with a somewhat sharp, transverse raised line, clypeus and frontal 

 part scabrose tuberculate, behind the centre of the frontal line is a 

 somewhat broad smooth space, the neck is smooth ; prothorax some- 

 what short, twice as broad as long, of the usual shape, covered with 

 closely set cicatricose punctures, broadly asperous laterally and in 

 front, the median discoidal part has a smooth, median longitudinal 

 smooth line, and a small median basal smooth patch, the supra- 

 basal marginal fold is smooth for a short space only; scutellum 

 with a few median punctures ; elytra moderately elongated, and 

 moderately broad, covered with somewhat simple, extremely briefly 

 setigerous punctures separated by a smooth interval about equal to 

 their own diameter ; pygidium with closely set, somewhat deeper 

 punctures than those on the elytra ; penultimate abdominal segment 

 not wider than the ante-penultimate ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate but 

 with the upper tooth very blunt, fore tarsi longer than the tibiae ; 

 upper claw of all the feet longer than the lower, strongly curved, 

 and of equal size of a somewhat heavier build than S. qucssita (Cat. 

 ii., p. 216), and also differing in colour ; the shape of the genital 

 clasps of the S is perhaps nearer to that of S. qucssita than to that 

 of any South African species known to me, but the branches of the 

 forceps are broader, not strangulate above the apical dilated part, 

 which is angular in the middle of the dilatation instead of the outer 

 part of the base. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 9 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Transkei). 



SCHIZONYCHA EFFETA, n. Sp. 



Head and prothorax testaceous-red, elytra paler testaceous ; 

 clypeus plainly transverse in the anterior part, normally rounded 

 on the sides, clypeal ridge very little raised, quite transverse and 

 merged with the clypeal suture, vertex with a slightly raised trans- 

 verse line, surface of both clypeus and frontal part covered with 

 large, round, nearly coalescing punctures separated by a very 

 narrow, slightly raised wall ; prothorax of the normal shape, but 

 very convex on the posterior median part, the sides being on that 

 account highly declivous there, the surface covered with cicatricose 

 punctures divided by a smooth space equal to their own diameter, 

 and slightly larger and less cicatricose in the centre, where there is 



