1908.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 701 



a very small impunctate area, supra-basal fold somewhat punctate ; 

 scutellum sharply triangular, and with one lateral row of punctures ; 

 elytra elongated, covered with sub-cicatricose punctures separated 

 by an interval equal to their diameter and almost imperceptibly 

 setigerous ; pygidium as long as broad, and with a few punctures 

 only on the sides of the anterior part ; under side very sparsely 

 punctate and pilose ; penultimate segment of abdomen broader than 

 the antepenultimate ; anterior tibiae distinctly tri-dentate outwardly; 

 all the tarsi very long, the upper claw very much longer than the 

 lower, which on that account seems to be median, and is somewhat 

 short. 



In general appearance not unlike S. transvaalica, Cat., but differ- 

 ing in many points. The genital armature of the $ is not unlike 

 that of S.furva (Cat. i., pi. 41, fig. 60, but narrower, especially at the 

 base. 



Length 10J mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). 



SCHIZONYCHA PAUPERATA, n. Sp. 



Male : Dark chestnut-brown, shiny ; antennas ferruginous ; clypeus 

 arcuate but blunt on the anterior part the margin of which is very 

 slightly sinuate in the anterior part, clypeal carina strongly arcuate, 

 the frontal suture plain, straight, vertex raised; prothorax short, 

 more than twice broader than long, normally crenulate ciliate 

 laterally and covered with simple but deep elongate punctures 

 separated by a slightly raised interval about equal to their 

 diameter, and bearing each a squamiform white hair, there are 

 no traces of smoothness in the supra-basal fold nor of a median 

 longitudinal smooth line ; the punctures on the head and neck are 

 similar to those of the prothorax, except those of the neck which 

 are not squamigerous ; scutellum with two lateral series of scaly 

 punctures ; elytra short, somewhat massive, deeply punctate but 

 with the intervals smooth, each puncture with a sub-squamose short 

 hair, apex of propygidium, and pygidium sparsely punctate ; penul- 

 timate abdominal segment not wider than the antepenultimate ; 

 anterior tibiae stoutly tri-dentate, tarsi short, not longer than the 

 tibiae, upper claw curved, longer than the lower, which is not much 

 stouter. This species greatly resemble S. constrata and also S. 

 rurigena, but the two examples I have seen are a little shorter 

 and stouter, the punctuation of the head and prothorax is deeper, 

 more closely set and more squamosely setigerous. The genital 

 organs of the $ are of quite a different shape from that of either 

 of them, and approximates those of S. fraudulenta (Cat. ii., p. 226, 



